Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Uva-ursi nevadensis (A. Gray) Abrams
Arctostaphylos nevadensis A. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. Am. 2^: 27. 1878.
A low depressed shrub, forming mats, with decumbent branches Z-6 dm. long, exfoliating, reddish-brown bark, and more or less tomentose branchlets; leaf -blades ovate to oblanceolate, commonly narrowly obovate, 15-25 mm. long, rounded to acutish at the apex, prominently mucronate, coriaceous, bright-green on both surfaces, glabrous or sparsely puberulent; petioles 2)~5 mm. long, puberulent or glabrous; flowers in very short, simple or few-branched racemes; bracts firm, abruptly acuminate above the base, 3 mm. long, pubescent; pedicels slender, 4-5 mm. long, glabrous or rarely sparsely puberulent; calyx-lobes broadly ovate, glabrous, or short-ciliate on the margins ; corolla 7-8 mm. long; ovary glabrous ; fruit deep-brown, depressedglobose, with copious acid pulp; nutlets readily separable, rugosely roughened.
Type locality: Sierra Nevada, California, at elevations of 2650 to 3340 meters. Distribution: A subalpine species of the Cascade Mountains and the Sierra Nevada, from Washington to California.
- bibliographic citation
- John Kunkel Small, NathanieI Lord Britton, Per Axel Rydberg, LeRoy Abrams. 1914. ERICALES, CLETHRACEAE, LENNOACEAE, PTROLACEAE, MONOTROPACEAE, ERICACEAE, UVA-URSI. North American flora. vol 29(1). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
