Arctostaphylos pungensKunth

pointleaf manzanita

WFO wfo-0000543665 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Arctostaphylos pungens, photographed by Madeleine Claire
fig. a Madeleine Claire, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-04-30 / obs. 194235020
Arctostaphylos pungens, photographed by Millie Basden
fig. b Millie Basden, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 186803472
Arctostaphylos pungens, photographed by Alan Rockefeller
fig. c Alan Rockefeller, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 187711074
Arctostaphylos pungens, photographed by Millie Basden
fig. d Millie Basden, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 192028761
Arctostaphylos pungens, photographed by Amthinkia
fig. e Amthinkia, CC0 1.0 / obs. 186032552
Arctostaphylos pungens, photographed by Alina Martin
fig. f Alina Martin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 184990826
Arctostaphylos pungens, photographed by Samuel A Schmid, PhD, PWS
fig. g Samuel A Schmid, PhD, PWS, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 183432748
Arctostaphylos pungens, photographed by Jon Lee
fig. h Jon Lee, CC0 1.0 / obs. 184233314

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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 = 1,851 observations

Peak flowering in Mar, from 1,851 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 20 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.

  • Arbutus madrono Humb. ex Kunth
  • Arbutus myrtifolia Willd. ex Steud.
  • Arbutus nuda Steud.
  • Arbutus rigida Willd. ex Steud.
  • Arbutus tomentosa var. nuda Hook.
  • Arctostaphylos benitoensis Roof
  • Arctostaphylos chaloneorum Roof
  • Arctostaphylos cratericola (Donn.Sm.) Donn.Sm.
  • Arctostaphylos glauca S.Watson
  • Arctostaphylos pseudopungens Roof
  • Arctostaphylos pungens f. glaucifolia Wawra
  • Arctostaphylos pungens subsp. chaloneorum (Roof) Roof
  • Arctostaphylos pungens var. cratericola Donn.Sm.
  • Arctostaphylos pungens var. mexicana W.Knight
  • Arctostaphylos pungens var. pungens
  • Arctostaphylos tomentosa var. nuda (Hook.) Lindl.
  • Arctostaphylos uva-ursi subsp. cratericola (Donn.Sm.) P.V.Wells
  • Daphnidostaphylis pungens (Kunth) Klotzsch
  • Uva-ursi cratericola (Donn.Sm.) Abrams
  • Uva-ursi pungens (Kunth) 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.