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Arctostaphylos ohloneana
Ohlone manzanita is a rare, endangered shrub endemic to northwest Santa Cruz County, California, known from only four populations on Ben Lomond Mountain, with an estimated 100 individuals. It is grown mainly for conservation and native-plant collections, and is best given full sun or part shade in very well-drained soil.
Arctostaphylos ohloneana is a rare species of manzanita known by the common name Ohlone manzanita, in the Santa Cruz Mountains in California. It takes its name after the native American Ohlone people who settled along the California coast between San Francisco and Santa Cruz. It is endemic to northwest Santa Cruz County, where it is known only from four populations on Ben Lomond Mountain, just south of Big Basin Redwoods State Park.
It was discovered in the 1980s by botanists James A. West and Randall Morgan among other manzanita species on the mountain and it was described to science in 2008. There are an estimated 100 individuals in existence.
Arctostaphylos ohloneana occurs in maritime chaparral and oak and pine forest habitat on whitish soils of siliceous shale origin. The plants all occur on land owned by Lockheed Martin. Typically found in elevation of about 400-500m
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Arctostaphylos ohloneana 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.
