Arctostaphylos

Accepted species 80 Documented here 60 Family Ericaceae

Accepted species 80 in this genus

Every accepted species in the genus is listed. A name links to its page when we hold at least three commercially licensed photographs of it. Where we do not, the row shows how many we actually found, which is usually none.

SpeciesAuthority Usable photographsPage
Arctostaphylos uva-ursi (L.) Spreng. 2,574 documented
Arctostaphylos glauca Lindl. 1,293 documented
Arctostaphylos pungens Kunth 1,052 documented
Arctostaphylos patula Greene 757 documented
Arctostaphylos columbiana Piper 600 documented
Arctostaphylos crustacea Eastw. 423 documented
Arctostaphylos glandulosa Eastw. 368 documented
Arctostaphylos nevadensis A.Gray 340 documented
Arctostaphylos viscida Parry 227 documented
Arctostaphylos silvicola Jeps. & Wiesl. 221 documented
Arctostaphylos montaraensis Roof 220 documented
Arctostaphylos obispoensis Eastw. 212 documented
Arctostaphylos regismontana Eastw. 172 documented
Arctostaphylos sensitiva Jeps. 169 documented
Arctostaphylos osoensis P.V.Wells 166 documented
Arctostaphylos manzanita Parry 158 documented
Arctostaphylos morroensis Wiesl. & B.Schreib. 152 documented
Arctostaphylos pumila Nutt. 141 documented
Arctostaphylos andersonii A.Gray 136 documented
Arctostaphylos imbricata Eastw. 131 documented
Arctostaphylos montereyensis Hoover 131 documented
Arctostaphylos pechoensis Dudley ex Abrams 120 documented
Arctostaphylos pechoensis (Abrams) Dudley ex Eastw. 120 documented
Arctostaphylos luciana P.V.Wells 118 documented
Arctostaphylos pilosula Jeps. & Wiesl. 116 documented
Arctostaphylos auriculata Eastw. 111 documented
Arctostaphylos rudis Jeps. & Wiesl. 89 documented
Arctostaphylos refugioensis Gankin 84 documented
Arctostaphylos pallida Eastw. 83 documented
Arctostaphylos pringlei Parry 72 documented
Arctostaphylos cruzensis Roof 70 documented
Arctostaphylos tomentosa (Pursh) Lindl. 68 documented
Arctostaphylos pacifica Roof 64 documented
Arctostaphylos pajaroensis J.E.Adams 63 documented
Arctostaphylos hispidula Howell 54 documented
Arctostaphylos virgata Eastw. 52 documented
Arctostaphylos purissima P.V.Wells 46 documented
Arctostaphylos edmundsii J.T.Howell 40 documented
Arctostaphylos canescens Eastw. 37 documented
Arctostaphylos rainbowensis J.E.Keeley & Massihi 37 documented
Arctostaphylos otayensis Wiesl. & B.Schreib. 33 documented
Arctostaphylos myrtifolia Parry 30 documented
Arctostaphylos glutinosa B.Schreib. 27 documented
Arctostaphylos mewukka Merriam 23 documented
Arctostaphylos hooveri P.V.Wells 22 documented
Arctostaphylos nummularia A.Gray 21 documented
Arctostaphylos densiflora M.S.Baker 20 documented
Arctostaphylos parryana Lemmon 20 documented
Arctostaphylos insularis Greene & Parry 18 documented
Arctostaphylos gabilanensis V.T.Parker & M.C.Vasey 16 documented
Arctostaphylos nipumu Abbo, Stickrod, A.Krohn, V.T.Parker, M.C.Vasey, W.Waycott & Litt 15 documented
Arctostaphylos nortensis (P.V.Wells) P.V.Wells 15 documented
Arctostaphylos catalinae P.V.Wells 14 documented
Arctostaphylos nissenana Merriam 14 documented
Arctostaphylos franciscana Eastw. 10 documented
Arctostaphylos hookeri G.Don 8 documented
Arctostaphylos stanfordiana Parry 7 documented
Arctostaphylos confertiflora Eastw. 5 documented
Arctostaphylos klamathensis S.W.Edwards, Keeler-Wolf & W.Knight 5 documented
Arctostaphylos viridissima (Eastw.) McMinn 5 documented
Arctostaphylos montana Eastw. 1 below the evidence gate
Arctostaphylos peninsularis P.V.Wells 1 below the evidence gate
Arctostaphylos × coloradensis Rollins 0 below the evidence gate
Arctostaphylos × helleri Eastw. 0 below the evidence gate
Arctostaphylos × jepsonii Eastw. 0 below the evidence gate
Arctostaphylos × laxiflora A.Heller ex Eastw. 0 below the evidence gate
Arctostaphylos × media Greene 0 below the evidence gate
Arctostaphylos × parvifolia Howell 0 below the evidence gate
Arctostaphylos × repens P.V.Wells 0 below the evidence gate
Arctostaphylos × strigosa Howell 0 below the evidence gate
Arctostaphylos acutifolia Eastw. 0 below the evidence gate
Arctostaphylos australis Eastw. 0 below the evidence gate
Arctostaphylos bakeri Eastw. 0 below the evidence gate
Arctostaphylos bolensis P.V.Wells 0 below the evidence gate
Arctostaphylos caucasica Lipsch. 0 below the evidence gate
Arctostaphylos incognita J.E.Keeley, Massihi, Delgadillo & Hirales 0 below the evidence gate
Arctostaphylos malloryi (W.Knight & Gankin) P.V.Wells 0 below the evidence gate
Arctostaphylos moranii P.V.Wells 0 below the evidence gate
Arctostaphylos ohloneana M.C.Vasey & V.T.Parker 0 below the evidence gate
Arctostaphylos wellsii W.Knight 0 below the evidence gate

Why some species have no pagethe gate

This site is commercial, so it can only publish photographs licensed for commercial use. Roughly three quarters of the photographs on iNaturalist are CC BY-NC, which excludes them. A species needs at least three usable photographs before we will build it a page, because a page with one picture and no traits tells you nothing you could not get from a search result, and generating hundreds of thousands of those is precisely the practice that got the previous version of this site deleted.

So the species above without a link are not errors and they are not omissions. They are real, accepted plants that we cannot yet document to the standard we hold ourselves to, and the count in the photographs column is exactly how far short we fall.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. Accepted names, authorities, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. Photograph counts, restricted to CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA. Retrieved 2026-06-27.