Pygmy Manzanita

Description

Arctostaphylos mendocinoensis-is a species of-manzanita-known by the common name-Pygmy manzanita. It is-endemic-to-Mendocino County, California-and-Sonoma County, California, where it is known from only one occurrence in the-pygmy forests-along the coastline. This is a small, mat-forming-shrub-growing in low mounds less than half a meter tall. It has red, shreddy bark and bristles along its smaller branches. The leaves are dark green, shiny, convex, and hairless, and rarely more than a centimeter long. The-inflorescence-is a dense cluster of urn-shaped flowers with four tiny lobes at the mouth. The fruit is a cylindrical-drupe-only a few millimeters long, containing four minute seeds.