Arctostaphylos nummularia subsp. nummularia

Uva-ursi nummularia (A. Gray) Abrams
Arctostaphylos nummularia A, Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 7: 366. 1868.
A low erect shrub, 5-15 dm. high, with numerous and very leafy branches, dark reddishbrown exfoliating bark, and glandular-pubescent and more or less setose-hispid branchlets; leaf -blades nearly orbicular to obovate or oblong-lanceolate, entire or rarely irregularly serrate, acutish to rounded and mucronate at the apex, acute to shallowly cordate at the base, 7-20 mm. long, thin, dark-green and shining above, paler beneath, cartilaginous and revolute on the margins, glabrous or the midvein puberulent toward the base, and the margins sometimes sparsely setose-hispid; petioles 3-4 mm. long, glandular-pubescent and setose-hispid; flowers in short terminal panicles or racemes; bracts triangular at the base, abruptly tapering into a subulate more or less deciduous apex, 2-3 mm. long; pedicels slender, 5 mm. long in flower, glabrous; calyx-lobes ovate, 3 mm. long, ciliate or glabrous on the margins; corolla 5 mm. long or less; ovary densely pubescent; fruit deep-brown, nearly or quite smooth, oblong, flattened laterally, 4-6 mm. long; pericarp thin with very little dry granular pulp; nutlets 2-4, readily separable, thin-walled.
Type locality: On the plains near Mendocino City, California.
Distribution: Coast ranges of California, from Mendocino County to Monterey County.