Manzanita

An impressionist painting of manzanitas with twisting red trunks and gray-green crowns beside a sandy path, with a figure under a red parasol and blue hills beyond
Painted pixel by pixel in Python, after William Merritt Chase.

A small field guide to California's manzanitas — the smooth-barked, twisting shrubs of the genus Arctostaphylos. Browse the species index, find out which manzanita you are, or let chance pick one for you.

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Species index