Green-leaf Manzanita, Snowbrush Manzanita

Also known as green manzanita, green-leaf manzanita is an attractive spreading shrub with branching stems from 1-2 meters high arising from a thickened base. The younger twigs, petioles, and floral bracts are dark with glandular hairs or occasionally with spreading hairs while the older stems are glabrous and reddish-tinged. The leaves are elliptic, oblanceolate, obovate or spatulate in outline and 3-5 cm long and up to 2.5 cm wide. The tip of the blade is rounded or ends with a minute spine-like tip while the blade surface is bright green and shiny. The petioles are up to 1.5 cm long.

The flowers are found in dense, short panicles.  The glabrous pedicels are 4-6 mm long while the floral bracts are triangular and 1-2.5 mm long. The sepals are white with membranous tips and the pink corollas are urn-shaped and bright pink, measuring up to 6 mm long. The glabrous fruit is is brownish to blackish and 7-10 mm wide.

Green-leaf manzanita may be found in open conifer forests at moderate elevations in the mountains.

Green-leaf manzanita may be found from near Mt. Hood in the northern Oregon Cascade Mts. south to southern Oregon and east through south-central Oregon to Colorado and further south through the Coast Range and Sierra Nevada to southern California.