Arctostaphylos viscida subsp. viscida

Uva-ursi viscida (Parry) Abrams
Arctostaphylos viscida Parry, Bull. Calif. Acad. 2: 492. 1887. Arctostaphylos pulchella Howell, Fl. NW. Am. 1: 416. 1901.
An erect branching shrub forming a rounded compact bush, 2-4 m. high, with dark reddish-brown smooth bark and pale glaucousgreen glabrous or rarely somewhat tomentose branchlets; leaf -blades suborbicular to oblong, usually ovate, 25-40 mm. long, rounded to acutish and apiculate at the apex, cordate to acute at the base, very pale glaucous-green and glabrous, firm-coriaceous; petioles 8-12 mm. long; branches of the open panicles glabrous; bracts triangularacuminate, 2-3 mm. long, glabrous, the tip more or less deciduous; pedicels very slender, 10-12 mm. long, villous-glandular and viscid; calyx-lobes ovate, the thin margins revolute, more or less ciliate; corolla light-pink, broadly urceolate, 7-9 mm. long; ovary glabrous; fruit depressed-globose, 6-8 mm. broad, light-brown; nutlets 4 or 5, 1 or 2 broad and 2-3-celled, carinate and roughened on the back.
Typb locality: The middle foothills of the Sierra Nevada, from central California to the Oregon line.
Distribution: Southern Oregon to the foothills of the northern coast ranges and the southern