Arctostaphylos nummularia A.Gray

• Region

  North America

• Country

  United States of America

• State/Province

  California

• County/Municipio

  Mendocino Co.

• Locality

  A few hundred feet S of Caspar Little Lake Road and about 2.9 mi E of the intersection with Rt. 1 (Shoreline Highway).

• Elevation

  Alt. 165 m. (541 ft.)

• Coordinates

  39.3394, -123.763

• Geodetic Datum

  WGS84/NAD83

• Distribution

  Map all specimens of this taxon

Harvard University, Gray Herbarium (GH)	4
PLANTS OF CALIFORNIA
Arctostaphylos nummularia A. Gray
ERICACEAE
Shrub 18in tall (some plants seen are were 4ft tall),
abundant, flowering plants rare, flowers pale pink to
white. Growing in a shrubby, semi-open savanna
which is very reminiscent of some such savannas and
pocosins in the southeastern United States, except drier.
Growing in loamy-clayey-sand (Shinglemill-Gibney
complex, 2 to 9 percent slopes; fine, mixed, semiactive
to active, isomesic Aquic to Typic Hapludults), with a
tussock-forming Carex sp., Cupressus pygmaea,
Gaultheria shallon, Myrica californica, Pinus contorta,
P. muricata, Rhododendron macrophyllum, Sequoia
sempervirens (rare) and Vaccinium ovatum. A few
hundred feet south of Caspar Little Lake Road and
about 2.9mi E. of the intersection with Rt. 1 (Shoreline
Highway). Mendocino Co. Elev. 540ft. 39° 20' 22"N,
123° 45' 47"W. UTM 10 434242E, 4354718N
(NAD83AVGS84).
Coll. Doug Goldman #2985
20 December 2004
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