Hooker's Manzanita
Arctostaphylos hookeri
Hooker's manzanita is a low, mounding California manzanita with glossy green leaves and shining red bark, useful as a refined groundcover or low shrub. Drought- and deer-resistant. Like other manzanitas, the fruit is traditionally cooked into preserves, jelly, or a cooling drink, best after the first frost sweetens it; the leaves make a tea.
- Family
- Ericaceae
- Type
- shrub
- Lifespan
- perennial
- Height
- 0.5–1 ft
- Spacing
- 3–6 ft apart
- Light
- sun, part shade
- Soil moisture
- dry
- Soil pH
- acidic, neutral
- Bloom
- February, March, April
- Bloom colors
- white, pink
- Wildlife value
- songbirds, pollinators
- Caterpillar hosts
- ~17 butterfly & moth species
- Landscape uses
- border, naturalizing
- Native states
- CA
Related native plants
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- Pinemat Manzanita (Arctostaphylos nevadensis)
- Common Manzanita (Arctostaphylos manzanita)
- Pringle Manzanita (Arctostaphylos pringlei)
- Hairy Manzanita (Arctostaphylos columbiana)