Arctostaphylos rudis Jeps. & Wiesl.
Sand mesa manzanita; Shagbark manzanita
109 photographs › At a glance
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- Mar, shaded
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- Jun, under 5 mm of rain
- Jul, under 5 mm of rain
- Aug, under 5 mm of rain
- Sep, under 5 mm of rain
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- Dec, shaded
Summary
Arctostaphylos rudis, with the common names shagbark manzanita and sand mesa manzanita, is a species of manzanita.
Quoted from Wikipedia, "Arctostaphylos rudis", 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
Seasons
The rain rule reads a winter growing season: 70% of the median year's rain (333 mm of 448 mm) falls in December to March, cooler than the year (wet-season mean 12.0 °C against a yearly mean of 14.3 °C). Months are the habitat's, northern hemisphere; shifted six months for a southern-hemisphere collection: June to September.
Rain
448 mm in the median year at the habitat, 333 mm of it December to March. Wettest months (2 at 91 mm), driest months (2 at 1 mm); 4 months under 5 mm. Across the grid cells of the range the year's total runs 411 mm to 500 mm, the 10th to 90th percentile of each cell's own year. The median of the cells' own yearly totals, 449 mm, is the year's rain at the top of the page; the 448 mm here is the median year's, the twelve monthly medians added, which the rain rule reads. Habitat calendar, northern hemisphere; median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA.
Light
Open sky over the habitat: 18 to 53 mol/m²/day across the year (daily light integral, median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA; the lowest 10th-percentile month across the cells is 17, the highest 90th-percentile month 53).
Warmth and air
Coldest: the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at a typical spot in the range is 5.6 °C, the absolute minimum 0.3 °C, no frost in 44 years (NASA POWER daily minima). Warmest: the 99th-percentile day is 30.6 °C. Monthly means: the coldest month's mean nightly low 8.7 °C in January (across the grid cells of the range 6.9 °C to 10.1 °C), the warmest month's mean daily high 20.9 °C in September (median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA). Cold floor: 5.6 °C, which is the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at a typical spot in the range (NASA POWER).
Relative humidity at the habitat: 56 to 65% across the year (monthly means, median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA). A figure about the air, saying nothing about how the plant takes water.
How this section is made
Each card states this species' habitat figures with their sources, and what two fixed rules read from them; nothing here says what the plant does, wants or tolerates. The rules · the terms.
Seasons. Read from the median year of CHELSA monthly rainfall and mean temperature across the grid cells of the range: the rain rule takes the smallest set of months carrying 70% of the rain and calls it winter when its mean is more than half a degree below the year's, summer when more than that above, and neither in between; the temperature rule, used only under 120 mm, names the cooler six months when they are at least a degree cooler than the other six. Months are shifted for the other hemisphere only where the temperature curve moves 4 °C or more and the habitat lies 10° or more from the equator. A reading of the curves, not an observation of the plant.
Rain. CHELSA monthly precipitation, median year across the grid cells of the range. The rain that falls where the species is recorded; nothing about how the plant takes water.
Light. CHELSA shortwave radiation at each envelope cell, a daily-mean flux taken to a daily total and converted at 2.07 mol of PAR per MJ. The sky over the habitat, measured; what reaches a plant under a rock, a shrub or a shade cloth is not.
Temperature. NASA POWER daily minima and maxima over 44 years at a typical spot in the range, lapse-corrected -161 m to its elevation; CHELSA monthly means, median year across the grid cells of the range. The cold floor is the 1st-percentile night named in its sentence. Not a measured survival limit for any plant in a pot.
Humidity. CHELSA relative humidity, median year across the grid cells of the range.
Climate across the habitat
Habitat months, northern hemisphere
Mean daily high from 15 °C in Jan, Feb and Dec to 21 °C in Aug and Sep; mean nightly low from 9 °C in Jan, Feb and Dec to 15 °C in Aug and Sep. The cold quarter, Dec to Feb, is the three months around the coldest month's mean nightly low, centred on the 3 months in a row that tie for it. 448 mm of rain in the median year (the twelve monthly medians added), the wettest months (2 at 91 mm). The bands show the 10th to 90th percentile across 35 habitat cells. Over 44 years at a typical spot in the range (NASA POWER) the absolute minimum was 0.3 °C and the 99th-percentile day 30.6 °C; neither is dated to a month. Beneath: daily light integral and relative humidity through the year, each on its own scale.
Figures by month
| Figure | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Day °C | 15 / 14–16 | 15 / 14–16 | 16 / 14–17 | 17 / 15–18 | 18 / 15–20 | 19 / 17–22 | 20 / 18–24 | 21 / 18–24 | 21 / 19–24 | 20 / 18–22 | 18 / 16–19 | 15 / 14–16 |
| Night °C | 9 / 7–10 | 9 / 8–10 | 10 / 8–11 | 10 / 9–11 | 12 / 11–12 | 13 / 13–13 | 14 / 14–15 | 15 / 15–15 | 15 / 14–15 | 13 / 12–14 | 11 / 9–12 | 9 / 7–10 |
| Rain mm | 91 / 82–100 | 91 / 83–99 | 79 / 73–84 | 32 / 28–34 | 8 / 7–10 | 2 / 2–3 | 1 | 1 | 4 / 2–5 | 22 / 19–25 | 45 / 40–53 | 72 / 66–83 |
| DLI | 20 / 19–20 | 25 / 25–26 | 35 / 34–35 | 44 / 44–45 | 50 / 50–51 | 53 / 53–53 | 51 / 51–52 | 47 / 47–48 | 40 / 39–40 | 31 / 30–31 | 22 / 22–23 | 18 / 17–19 |
| RH % | 58 / 55–59 | 59 / 57–61 | 60 / 59–63 | 60 / 58–64 | 63 / 59–68 | 63 / 59–69 | 65 / 59–71 | 65 / 59–72 | 63 / 58–69 | 59 / 56–64 | 56 / 54–58 | 57 / 54–58 |
How this section is made
Natural habitat
How this section is made
Photographs
Photographs: (c) harrier, some rights reserved (CC BY) (5); (c) Bonnie Semmling, some rights reserved (CC BY).
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The record
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
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