Arctostaphylos patula subsp. patula

Uva-ursi patula (Greene) Abrams, Bull. N. Y. Bot. Gard
6: 433. 1910.
Arctostaphylos patula Greene, Pittonia 2: 171. 1891.
Arctostaphylos pungens platyphylla A. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. Am. 2^: 28. 1878. Arctostaphylos platyphylla Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 385. 1891. Arctostaphylos obtusifolia Piper, Bull. Torrey Club 29: 642. 1902.
An erect bushy shrub, with rigid crooked branches, 1-2 m. high; bark smooth on the old branches and trunks, not exfoliating, bright reddish-brown ; branchlets glabrous, resinousglandular or glandular-pubescent; leaf-blades ovate to suborbicular, 30-45 mm. long, obtuse or rounded at the apex, firm-coriaceous, bright yellowish-green, not at all glaucous, glabrous or somewhat resinous-glandular toward the base, often reflexed; petioles 10-15 mm. long, glandular-puberulent or glandular-pubescent; flowers in more or less ample corymbose panicles; branches of the inflorescence and bracts resinous-glandular or commonly glandular-pubescent; bracts broadly triangular at the base, abruptly subulate or sometimes acute, 3-7 mm. long, firm and widely spreading or reflexed in fruit, glabrous; pedicels 5-7 mm. long in fruit, glabrous; calyx-lobes broadly ovate, glabrous; corolla 6.5-7.5 mm. long, white tinged with pink; ovary glabrous; fruit chestnut-brown, depressed-globose, 7-10 mm. broad: nutlets irregularly coalescent, rounded on the back and inconspicuously ribbed, otherwise nearly smooth.
Type locality : Pine woods at middle elevations in the Sierra Nevada, California. Distribution: Blue Moimtains and the Cascade Mountains, Oregon, to Utah and the San Jacinto Mountains, southern California. Restricted to the coniferous forest region.