Mt. Tamalpais Manzanita

Uva-ursi montana (Eastw.) Abrams
Arctostaphylos montana Eastw. Proc. Calif. Acad. III. 1: 83. 1897.
A low spreading shrub, 1 m. or less high, with nearly smooth reddish-brown bark and hoary tomentose branchlets; leaf -blades ovate, obovate, or broadly elliptic, 15-25 mm. long, obtuse or acutish and prominently apiculate at the apex, coriaceous, dull-green and more or less tomentose; petioles 3-4 mm. long, tomentose; flowers in short spike-like simple or fewbranched racemes; rachis densely tomentose; bracts triangular, 3 mm. long, tomentose below the middle, the upper half nearly or quite glabrous, brown and deciduous; pedicels 4—5 mm. long, glabrous; calyx-lobes ovate, pubescent on the margins; corolla 6-7 mm. long; ovary conic, glabrous; nutlets irregularly coalescent, rounded on the back and faintly ribbed, otherwise nearly smooth.
Type locality: Mt. Tamalpais, Marin County, California. Distribution: Coast ranges of central California.

Arctostaphylos montana is a species of manzanita. It is endemic to the San Francisco Bay area where it has been found on Mount Tamalpais and at the Presidio of San Francisco.