This one is beautiful in its range under shore pine near the coast, but a real pain elsewhere. Glossyleaf Manzanita is not cold hardy or heat hardy. It looks like a small, tight form of A. uva-ursi. It grows in the pine barrens, under Pinus contorta and Arctostaphylos columbiana. Rainfall is near temperate rainforest conditions.
Arctostaphylos nummularia tolerates sand.
Arctostaphylos nummularia is great for a bird garden.
Foliage of Arctostaphylos nummularia has color reddish-green and is evergreen.
Flower of Arctostaphylos nummularia has color white.
Fruit of Arctostaphylos nummularia is edible.
Communities for Arctostaphylos nummularia:Closed-cone Pine Forest.
