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Arctostaphylos luciana
Santa Lucia manzanita is a shrub or small multi-trunked tree from the southern Santa Lucia Mountains of California, with glaucous gray leaves and pink-white urn-shaped spring flowers. It is a drought-tolerant plant that suits dry, sunny, well-drained sites.
Arctostaphylos luciana is a species of manzanita known by the common name Santa Lucia manzanita, is endemic to California.
The woody plant is endemic to the southern Santa Lucia Mountains, in San Luis Obispo County.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Arctostaphylos luciana 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.
