Sandmat Manzanita

Uva-ursi pumila (Nutt.) Abrams
Arctostaphylos pumila Nutt. Trans. Am. Phil. See. II. 8: 267. 1843. Dapknidostaphylis pumila Klotzsch, Linnaea 24: 267. 1851.
A low spreading shrub forming mats, with assurgent branches, reddish-brown exfoliating bark, and slightly glandular branchlets canescent with a fine soft tomentum ; leaves numerous, the blades narrowly obovate to spatulate, rarely elliptic or ovate, 1-2 cm. long, rotmded to acute and inconspicuously mucronate at the apex, acute or sometimes obtuse at the base, dull-green above, distinctly paler beneath, tbmentose when young or often permanently so on the lower surface; petioles 2-3 mm. long; flowers in short congested simple or few-branched
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racemes with tomentose peduncles and bracts, the latter lanceolate-acuminate, 2-4 mm. long, firm and persistent; pedicels 3 mm. long, slender, more or less glandular-pubescent; calyxlobes broadly ovate, ciliate on the margins; corolla pink, 4 mm. long; ovary pubescent; fruit light-brown, nearly glabrous, slightly depressed-globose; nutlets readily separable or rarely irregularly coalescent, carinate, otherwise smooth.
Type locality: Monterey, California,
Distribution: Confined to the Monterey peninsula, California.

Arctostaphylos pumila, with the common name sandmat manzanita, is a species of manzanita.