GinaBig Berry Manzanita (Arctostaphylos glauca) can live for over 100 years but doesn’t begin to fruit until around age 20. Its seeds need fire to germinate, and it produces large, edible berries.
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oops!all_manzanitasBearberry manzanita (Arctostaphylos uva-ursi) at Point Reyes National Seashore!
This low-growing species is found throughout the Northern Hemisphere, but is rare in California. In Eastern Canada and USA it's known as kinnikinnick, and is a part of some traditional smoking mixtures.
In California it tends to inhabit coastal bluffs at a few locations from Monterey County North. There is also a small population on San Bruno Mountain. I have only seen it a handful of times, it seems not to be able to handle much grazing by cattle. At this location it only survived at very edge of the bluff!
#CaliforniaNativePlants #Nativeplants #PlantsoftheBayArea #PlantsofMarinCounty #PlantsofPointReyes #WildlifePhotography #PlantPhotography #Mosstodon #bloomscrolling #wildflowers #MarinCounty #MarinCountyBotany #PointReyesNationalSeashore #PointReyes #Arctostaphylosuvaursi
#Arctostaphylos
#manzanitas #bearberry #kinnikinnick #FireEcology
Alameda Manzanitas (Arctostaphylos pallida) are flowering in El Sobrante!
One of my favorite rare native species. They are found in just a few groves in the hills between Oakland and Pinole.
#CaliforniaNativePlants #Nativeplants #PlantsoftheBayArea #PlantsofAlamedaCounty #PlantsofOakland #wildlifephotography #plantphotography #Mosstodon #bloomscrolling #wildflowers #AlamedaCounty #ElSobrante #Arctostaphylospallida
#Arctostaphylos
#manzanitas
At #Nairn Falls, #Pemberton, British Columbia, Canada. It is a sacred place to the Líl'wat nation #lilwat. This community was growing by the side of the falls, in the spray, on basalt talus. To the best of my ability - #Cryptogramma acrostichoides (parsley fern), #Micranthes ferruginea (russet saxifrage), #Penstemon fruticosus (shrubby penstemon), #Arctostaphylos uva-ursi (kinnikinnick or bearberry), #mosses.
It's manzanita season! Celebrating with the population of common manzanita at China Camp State Park. The hummingbirds definitely got the invitation.
#CaliforniaNativePlants #arctostaphylosmanzanitamanzanita #arctostaphylosmanzanita #arctostaphylos #manzanita #plantsofthebayarea #marincounty #ChinaCampStatePark #bloomscrolling #botany #marincountybotany #wildlifephotography #PlantsofMarinCounty #Mosstodon
CyanocittaManzanita blooms from late January set and the fruit is enjoying this early April sunshine.
juli g pausasThe firsts researchers that had an #evolutionary view of #fire ecology were probably EB Poulton (when looking at fire beetles 1915) & WL Jepson (studying #Arctostaphylos 1922)
1) Do you know of any other earlier?
2) Do you know of any woman with such view earlier than 1970? #gender
https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/full/10.1146/annurev-ecolsys-102320-095612 | @AnnualReviews
@wildfirescience #evolutionary #ecology #FireEcology #PlantEcology #evolution
It's a warm Wednesday morning. Lesser Goldfinches and Whiteleaf Manzanita (A. viscida subsp viscida) enjoying the sunshine.
A few shots from today's windswept hike near Keswick. The brief storm went south of us.
Keswick Reservoir - California Towhee
Mallory's Manzanita, Arctostaphylos malloryi
#Birding #CaliforniaTowhee #Manzanita #Arctostaphylos #Malloryi
