Arctostaphylos glauca (bigberry manzanita)

Big Berry Manzanita

An evergreen shrub to small tree with red-brown bark.  This shrub grows to about ten feet high and wide.  White flowers bloom in spring followed by hard 1/2 in. diameter red-brown berries.

- Does well in heavier soils but also excels in  decomposed granite.  Tolerates alkaline or serpentine soil

- Water for first year and then can exist on rainfall

- pink + white flowers (winter)

-attracts, birds, bees and butterflies

- More susceptible to red leaf spot gall near the coast

- Drought tolerant

- California Native