Big 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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Bearberry 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!

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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.

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