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Arctostaphylos columbiana Piper           Columbia Manzanita

A much-branched shrub, 1-3 m high; young twigs densely hairy; leaves pale green; oblong to ovate, acute, 2-6 cm long, hairy on both sides when young but losing it when mature; petioles short and hairy; racemes clustered; corolla white and urn-shaped; bracts lanceolate; fruit depressed-globose, reddish; along the coast on the west slopes of the Cascades.

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