Arctostaphylos purissima - La Purisima manzanita

La Purisima manzanita (Arctostaphylos purissima) is a low, evergreen ground-cover shrub native to the sandstone and old beach sand of California’s central coast, very tolerant of drought and sandy soil.¹ It grows 0.3-1.5 m tall and 1-2 m wide.¹

Inputs

• Hardiness zone 8¹
• Hardiness zone 9¹
• Hardiness zone 10¹

Outputs

• Human food¹

Type

• Arctostaphylos spp. - Manzanita
• Shrub
• Evergreen

Functions

• Ground cover¹
• Drought-tolerance¹
• Wildlife habitat¹
• Flammable²

Dimension	At maturity
Height (m)	0.3-1.5
Diameter (m)	1-2

Footnotes

1. Arctostaphylos purissima ‘Burton Mesa Groundcover’, La Purisima Manzanita | Las Pilitas Nursery Native Plant Database ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶ ↩⁷ ↩⁸ ↩⁹

2. Leaf burn times of California native plants, Las Pilitas Nursery, 2005 propane-torch ignition trial, live-leaf ignition time 15 seconds ↩