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Arctostaphylos gabilanensis
Also called Gabilan Manzanita
Gabilan Mountains manzanita is a rare evergreen shrub or small tree native to chaparral in the Gabilan Range of central California. It is grown mainly as a drought-tolerant native for dry, well-drained sites.
Arctostaphylos gabilanensis is a rare species of manzanita known by the common name Gabilan manzanita.
It is endemic to California, where it is known only from two disjunct populations in the Gabilan Range on the border between Monterey and San Benito Counties. It was described to science in 2004 from the type specimen collected near Fremont Peak in 2002.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Arctostaphylos gabilanensis by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
