Bigberry Manzanita

Uva-ursi glauca (I^indl.) Abrams, Bull. N. Y. Bot. Gard
6: 433. 1910.
Arctostaphylos glauca I/indl. Bot. Reg. 21: under pi. 1791. 1836, Xerohotrys glaucus Nutt. Trans. Am. Phil. See. II. 8: 268. 1843. Daphnidostaphylis glauca Klotzsch, I^innaea 24: 80. 1851.
An arborescent shrub or small tree, with a trunk sometimes 3 dm. in diameter; branches compact and rigid, the bark smooth, reddish-brown; branchlets pale-green and glaucous, glabrous or rarely glandular-pubescent ; leaf -blades oblong, elliptic, or commonly ovate, obtuse and more or less mucronate at the apex, obtuse to shallowly cordate at the base, 2-4 cm. long, entire or on vigorous shoots serrate, very pale-green and glaucous on both surfaces, glabrous or rarely glandular-pubescent on the margins toward the base; petioles 7-10 mm. long, glabrous or rarely glandular-pubescent, twisted giving the leaves a vertical position; flowers in short terminal panicles or racemes; branches of the inflorescence glabrous or rarely glandularpubescent; lower bracts foliaceous, those subtending the flowers 3-6 mm. long, triangular, spreading or recurved, firm; pedicels glabrous or rarely glandular-pubescent; calyx-lobes broadly ovate, 4 mm. long, ciliate or naked on the margins; corolla 8-9 mm. long, white tinged with pink; ovary glandular; fruit ovoid, 12-15 mm. broad, light-brown, very viscid; pericarp thin and wrinkled, without granular pulp; nutlets united into a solid smooth stone, apiculate at both ends, the union of the nutlets marked by longitudinal lines.
Type i^ocawty: California.
Distribution: Mt. Diablo in the coast ranges and the foothills of the Sierra Nevada southward to San Diego County, California; the glandular-pubescent form is in the Santa Inez Mountains.