Hooker's Manzanita
Arctostaphylos hookeri
Hooker's manzanita is a low, mounding California manzanita with glossy green leaves and shining red bark, useful as a refined groundcover or low shrub. Drought- and deer-resistant.
- Family
- Ericaceae
- Type
- shrub
- Lifespan
- perennial
- Height
- 1–4 ft
- Spacing
- 4–8 ft apart
- Light
- sun, part shade
- Soil moisture
- dry
- Soil pH
- acidic, neutral
- Bloom
- February, March
- Bloom colors
- white, pink
- Wildlife value
- pollinators, hummingbirds, songbirds, mammals
- Caterpillar hosts
- ~17 butterfly & moth species
- Landscape uses
- foundation, erosion control
- Native states
- CA