Arctostaphylos patula - Greenleaf manzanita

Greenleaf manzanita (Arctostaphylos patula) is an evergreen shrub native to the mountains of western North America, its berries edible raw, dried, or ground into flour, and its leaves yielding a yellowish-brown dye.¹

Inputs

• Hardiness zone 5¹
• Hardiness zone 6¹
• Hardiness zone 7¹
• Hardiness zone 8¹
• Hardiness zone 9¹
• Full sun¹
• Semi-shade¹
• Moist soil¹

Outputs

• Human food¹
• Medicinal use¹
• Dye¹

Type

• Arctostaphylos spp. - Manzanita
• Shrub
• Evergreen

Functions

• Flammable²

Footnotes

1. Arctostaphylos patula | Plants for a Future ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶ ↩⁷ ↩⁸ ↩⁹ ↩¹⁰ ↩¹¹ ↩¹²

2. Leaf burn times of California native plants, Las Pilitas Nursery, 2005 propane-torch ignition trial, live-leaf ignition time 12 seconds ↩