Arctostaphylos x densiflora ‘Howard McMinn’
A reliable, garden-tolerant evergreen manzanita forming a dense, rounded shrub roughly 5 to 6 feet tall and as wide or wider, with glossy green leaves and smooth, mahogany-red bark. It takes full sun to part shade, accepts a broader range of soils and occasional summer water than most manzanitas, and is drought tolerant once established. Clusters of pink to white urn-shaped flowers appear in late winter to spring, drawing pollinators; use it as a foundation shrub, informal hedge, screen, or low-water focal planting.