Greenleaf Manzanita
Arctostaphylos patula
Greenleaf manzanita is a rounded mountain manzanita with bright apple-green leaves, mahogany bark, and pink urn flowers, widespread in western conifer forests. Drought-hardy, deer-resistant, and wildlife-rich. Like other manzanitas, the tart, apple-flavored ripe fruit is eaten fresh, dried into cakes, or made into jelly and cider.
- Family
- Ericaceae
- Type
- shrub
- Lifespan
- perennial
- Height
- 6–6 ft
- Spacing
- 4–8 ft apart
- Light
- sun
- Soil moisture
- moist
- Soil pH
- acidic, neutral, alkaline
- Bloom
- April, May, June
- Bloom colors
- pink
- Wildlife value
- songbirds, pollinators
- Caterpillar hosts
- ~17 butterfly & moth species
- Landscape uses
- hedge or screen, foundation
- Native states
- AZ, CA, CO, MT, NM, NV, OR, UT, WA
Related native plants
More Arctostaphylos species
- Kinnikinnick (Arctostaphylos uva-ursi)
- Pinemat Manzanita (Arctostaphylos nevadensis)
- Common Manzanita (Arctostaphylos manzanita)
- Pringle Manzanita (Arctostaphylos pringlei)
- Hairy Manzanita (Arctostaphylos columbiana)
- Hooker's Manzanita (Arctostaphylos hookeri)