title: Arctostaphylos parryana
text: # Arctostaphylos parryana
  
  Arctostaphylos parryana, with the common name Parry manzanita, is a species of manzanita.
  
  ## Description
  
  Arctostaphylos parryana is an erect manzanita, standing on red-barked stems and reaching up to two meters in height. The leaves are bright green, generally oval in shape and pointed. The small pink-tinted white flowers are borne in densely bunched inflorescences. The fruit is a rounded drupe which contains two or more seeds which have fused into one body.
  
  The fruit was a food of the Luiseño of Southern California.
  
  ## Distribution
  
  This shrub is endemic to California, where it grows in the western section of the Transverse Ranges, from coastal Santa Barbara County to the San Gabriel Mountains.
  
  This is a manzanita of chaparral and low-elevation coniferous forest ecosystems.
  
  