Arctostaphylos silvicola - Santa Cruz manzanita

Santa Cruz manzanita (Arctostaphylos silvicola) is a gray-leaved evergreen shrub native to old sand dunes in the Santa Cruz Mountains of California, requiring well drained soil and intolerant of summer water once established.¹ It grows 1-2 m tall and wide.¹

Inputs

• Hardiness zone 8¹
• Hardiness zone 9¹
• Hardiness zone 10¹
• Well drained soil¹

Outputs

• Human food¹

Type

• Arctostaphylos spp. - Manzanita
• Shrub
• Evergreen

Functions

• Wildlife habitat¹
• Flammable²

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

Footnotes

1. Arctostaphylos silvicola ‘Ghostly’, Santa Cruz Manzanita | Las Pilitas Nursery Native Plant Database ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶ ↩⁷ ↩⁸

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