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    Arctostaphylos manzanita is tree-like in habit, growing in grassland, chapparal and woodlands from the San Francisco Bay area north to Humbolt County.  Its beautiful bark glows reddish-brown on snaky branches.  The leathery gray green leaves are broad and measure up to two inches in length.  Among the earliest manzanitas to bloom, its urn-shaped flowers often begin to open in early winter.  By early summer reddish spherical fruits appear.
  
    Early winter.  10-12 ft. 
    
   White to Pink flowers  
     
    Sun     Zones 7, 8, 9 |