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Arctostaphylos franciscana; photograph (c) Alexander Wentworth, some rights reserved (CC BY) CC BY(c) Alexander Wentworth, some rights reserved (CC BY) · observed growing wild · 2024-05-11

Arctostaphylos franciscana Eastw.

Franciscan manzanita; San Francisco manzanita

Ericaceae

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Summary

Arctostaphylos franciscana, known by the common name Franciscan manzanita, is a species of manzanita. It was named by Alice Eastwood in 1905 who was the first to identify the organism as a unique species. It is native to the city of San Francisco and it is a low-growing, spreading-to-ascending evergreen shrub in the heath family Ericaceae. The name is derived from the Spanish word manzanita, which means “little apple” because of the small, apple shaped berries that grow from the plant.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Arctostaphylos franciscana", CC BY-SA 4.0.

About the genus · Arctostaphylos

Arctostaphylos is a genus of plants within the family Ericaceae. Many plants within the genus Arctostaphylos are also commonly called manzanitas(/ˌmænzəˈniːtəz/) or bearberries. There are 107 taxa within Arctostaphylos, 106 of which are found in the California Floristic Province. More on Wikipedia ›

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Arctostaphylos", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: Native range not verified: no WCVP distribution with native status for this name, so records cannot be told from cultivation and no habitat climate is derived. 40 of the 44 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or to no stated accuracy and fewer than three decimals or by something other than a person's observation, and cannot place a climate cell, though they count for the map and its marker.

Natural habitat

No native range: WCVP lists no region where it is native.
Openly licensed records, not tested against the stated range, framed on where they fall.
NativeWCVP lists no region where it is native; the regions it does list are named here.
Extinct inCalifornia · recorded as extinct by WCVP: history, not habitat; no records are tested against these regions
Kew's description“subshrub or shrub” · “subtropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedNo verified native range for this name: WCVP has no entry with native status, and a checklist that only reports presence cannot tell a wild record from a garden one. The map shows 14 openly licensed records of 44 untested against any range; no map marker or climate is derived from them, and no sheet is built from them. 40 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stay on the map but off the climate.

Photographs

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Photographs: (c) Rajan Rao, some rights reserved (CC BY) (3); (c) Alexander Wentworth, some rights reserved (CC BY) (3).

Other Arctostaphylos 50 in the reference

Arctostaphylos andersonii Arctostaphylos andersonii Santa Cruz manzanita Photo: CC BY, Isaac KroneArctostaphylos auriculata Arctostaphylos auriculata Mount Diablo manzanita Photo: CC BY, er-birds Arctostaphylos australis Australian manzanita Arctostaphylos bakeri Arctostaphylos bakeri Baker's manzanita Photo: CC BY, Alexander WentworthArctostaphylos canescens Arctostaphylos canescens Hoary manzanita Photo: CC0, author not statedArctostaphylos catalinae Arctostaphylos catalinae Santa Catalina Island manzanita Photo: CC BY, Aaron KreisbergArctostaphylos × coloradensis Arctostaphylos × coloradensis Colorado manzanita Photo: CC BY, Anders HastingsArctostaphylos columbiana Arctostaphylos columbiana Columbia manzanita Photo: CC0, author not statedArctostaphylos crustacea Arctostaphylos crustacea Brittleleaf manzanita Photo: CC BY, harriiArctostaphylos cruzensis Arctostaphylos cruzensis Arroyo de la Cruz manzanita Photo: CC0, author not statedArctostaphylos densiflora Arctostaphylos densiflora Vine Hill manzanita Photo: CC BY, Madeleine ClaireArctostaphylos edmundsii Arctostaphylos edmundsii Little Sur manzanita Photo: CC BY-SA, Nicholas Wei all 51 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Arctostaphylos hookeri subsp. franciscana; Arctostaphylos uva-ursi var. franciscana; Uva-ursi franciscana. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Ericaceae
Described by
Eastw.
Native to
not verified
Records
44 georeferenced · 14 open · range not tested

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-21
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-21
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-21
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-21names fetched 2026-10-21
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04Kew's entry lists no native region
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21; 11 records within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (10 at a botanic garden or arboretum, 1 at a zoo; Wikidata's list)
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-21native range not verified: no WCVP distribution with native status for this name, so records cannot be told from cultivation and no habitat climate is derived
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-21
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-21
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild answeredasked 2026-10-22from iNaturalist's open data of 2026-09-27: research-grade observations with an open-licence photograph, the 24 whose photographs iNaturalist received last (the open data holds no votes); filled 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media answeredasked 2026-10-21none of the photographs on this page is credited to GBIF: those shown are other sources', and GBIF's were the same photographs or were set aside by the photograph rules
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 7 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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