Arctostaphylos patulaGreene

greenleaf manzanita

WFO wfo-0000543637 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Arctostaphylos patula, photographed by Annika Lindqvist
fig. a Annika Lindqvist, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-24 / obs. 203574740
Arctostaphylos patula, photographed by Roger Rittmaster
fig. b Roger Rittmaster, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201100141
Arctostaphylos patula, photographed by Dominic Gentilcore
fig. c Dominic Gentilcore, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 191202689
Arctostaphylos patula, photographed by Dan Horowitz
fig. d Dan Horowitz, CC0 1.0 / obs. 199888952
Arctostaphylos patula, photographed by Dee Shea Himes
fig. e Dee Shea Himes, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 199007936
Arctostaphylos patula, photographed by Zoltán Stekkelpak
fig. f Zoltán Stekkelpak, CC0 1.0 / obs. 187417131
Arctostaphylos patula, photographed by Dominic Gentilcore
fig. g Dominic Gentilcore, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 190983507
Arctostaphylos patula, photographed by Neal Kelso
fig. h Neal Kelso, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 180187439

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Confused withby our own model

These are not lookalikes we guessed at. Each one is a species our identification model genuinely mistook for this plant, and how many times. The error rate is published.

Flowering n = 1,606 observations

Peak flowering in May, from 1,606 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 10 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Arctostaphylos obtusifolia Piper
  • Arctostaphylos parryana var. pinetorum (Rollins) Wiesl. & B.Schreib.
  • Arctostaphylos patula f. coalescens (W.Knight) P.V.Wells
  • Arctostaphylos patula f. platyphylla (A.Gray) P.V.Wells
  • Arctostaphylos patula subsp. platyphylla (A.Gray) P.V.Wells
  • Arctostaphylos patula var. coalescens W.Knight
  • Arctostaphylos patula var. incarnata Jeps.
  • Arctostaphylos pinetorum Rollins
  • Arctostaphylos pungens var. platyphylla A.Gray
  • Uva-ursi patula (Greene) Abrams

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.