Our Plants (List)

The Presidio manzanita is a rare subspecies of the Mount Tamalpais manzanita of Marin County. The Presidio manzanita grows only in serpentine outcroppings in the Presidio of San Francisco. Only a single species is known to exist in the wild, its exact location a carefully kept secret. It must have…

This is one of the many species of manzanita found growing near San Luis Obispo on California’s Central Coast. This is one of the manzanita “hot spots” where numerous species occur together in a small geographic area. An interesting element of these hot spots is that each species favors a…

Bishop manzanita is one of many species native to the mountain ranges of the Central Coast. It grows in the Santa Lucia Range from southern Monterey County through San Luis Obispo County. The form is upright, dense and rounded. with silver-gray foliage and white winter flowers. The leaf shape varies…

These plants were grown from cuttings taken from a plant purchased from Theodore Payne Foundation in 2021.