How to Use manzanita in a Sentence

manzanita

noun

• This is intermixed with brush and shrubs containing large stands of manzanita and oaks stands.
  — Ca Wildfire Bot, Sacbee.com, 25 Sep. 2025
• This is intermixed with brush and shrubs containing large stands of manzanita and oaks stands.
  — Ca Wildfire Bot, Sacbee.com, 24 Sep. 2025
• The manzanitas, sagebrushes and oaks may be thriving.
  — Deputy Managing Editor, Los Angeles Times, 20 Jan. 2026
• Mountain slopes once cloaked by manzanita, chemise and other chaparral were rendered into moonscapes.
  — Tom Stienstra, San Francisco Chronicle, 22 Oct. 2017
• Eventually, the initial plants give way to slower growing, woody species such as manzanita, toyon, lemonade berry and sages.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 June 2019
• Some seeds, like those of red maids, soaproot, mariposa lily, island manzanita and chamise, are called fire-followers and need heat or smoke of fire to germinate.
  — Nollyanne Delacruz, Mercury News, 18 Feb. 2026
• The approximately 8-mile trail cuts through forests of gnarled red manzanita trees and offers views of Lake Hemet below.
  — Nick Agro, Orange County Register, 24 May 2017
• Snow sometimes dusts the surrounding slopes, melting by afternoon into damp earth as manzanita and mountain lilac begin to flower.
  — Josh Jackson, Los Angeles Times, 7 Apr. 2026
• Likewise, manzanitas, succulents and other drought-tolerant plants died when exposed to constantly wet soil.
  — Debbie Arrington, sacbee.com, 9 June 2017
• Almost nothing is blooming as early, so nestle them among dwarf evergreens, manzanitas, euonymous or rock features.
  — Susan Clotfelter, The Denver Post, 31 Mar. 2017
• There are many species of manzanita (Arctostphylos) that fit any landscape, and some begin booming as early as December.
  — Patrice Hanlon, The Mercury News, 23 Feb. 2017
• For those looking for a lakeside campsite on a backpacking trek here, the extra leg to Harrington could provide a nightmare of manzanita and brush, as if caught in a spider web.
  — Tom Stienstra, SFChronicle.com, 10 July 2019
• The seeds of the green leaf manzanita, for example, are activated by forest fires, and smoke causes Colorado beardtongue seeds to germinate.
  — Ray Mark Rinaldi, The Know, 16 Mar. 2017
• The front lawn was replaced with a cottage garden of purple sages, sea lavenders and penstemon, red native fuchsia and the ever-present greens of manzanita and coffeeberry.
  — Marta Yamamoto, The Mercury News, 21 Apr. 2017
• Four years after logging, the wasteland portrayed in the photo was thick with manzanita bushes, raspberries, snowbrush, bracken fern, and native blackberries.
  — Warren Cornwall, Science | AAAS, 5 Oct. 2017
• The governor also designated the bigberry manzanita as the official state shrub.
  — Kate Wolffe, Sacbee.com, 13 Oct. 2025
• Though optional, the wild manzanita berries that grow abundantly throughout California make a wonderful addition to this dish.
  — New York Times, 7 Nov. 2019
• The paths are surrounded by vegetation and water-wise plants such as succulents, honeysuckle, pincushion flowers, manzanita and more.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 July 2019
• The 3-mile summit trail (6 miles roundtrip) is a fire road flanked by old oaks and manzanita that winds gradually up the slope, eventually opening into magnificent panoramic views of the lake and valley below.
  — San Francisco Chronicle, 1 July 2021
• Across Arizona’s Sky Islands, home to many black bears, valleys and hillslopes are dotted with the rusty corpses of Emory oak, alligator juniper and manzanitas.
  — Shi En Kim, AZCentral.com, 20 Feb. 2026
• Several manzanitas, Opuntia cactus, agaves, and spiky Dasylirion wheeleri ensure a cohesive look. Punches of color--including a magenta bougainvillea and a spray of hot pink flowers from a Hesperaloe--provide eye-catching contrast.
  — Sunset, 22 Jan. 2018
• Firefighters had to fight through rocky terrain and dense manzanita and scrub oak that sprang up after the catastrophic Dude Fire of 1990, which had destroyed the native ponderosa pines and changed the area’s flora forever.
  — azcentral, 15 May 2018
• Yigal has help caring for his trees, which are surrounded by native California plants including sage and manzanita, from his neighbor, Mark Johnson, who has an additional 15 olive trees of his own.
  — Julie Gallant, Ramona Sentinel, 15 Mar. 2018
• For her garden design clients in Marin County, Holmes favors a combination of California native and non-native plants, including salvias, agaves, aloes, and manzanitas.
  — Mike Irvine, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 Oct. 2025
• Governor Gavin Newsom signed legislation on Friday establishing the bigberry manzanita as California’s state shrub and the giant garter snake as the state snake.
  — Martha McHardy, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Oct. 2025
• The bigberry manzanita is a large, evergreen shrub native to California and Baja California, thriving in chaparral and woodland habitats.
  — Martha McHardy, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Oct. 2025
• The moisture content of manzanita and chemise, two plants scientists regularly measure to gauge fire risk across California, is about 20% higher now in the Bay Area than average, Clements said.
  — Paul Rogers, chicagotribune.com, 26 Aug. 2019
• The moisture content of manzanita and chemise, two plants scientists regularly measure to gauge fire risk across California, is about 20 percent higher now in the Bay Area than average, Clements said.
  — Paul Rogers, The Mercury News, 23 Aug. 2019
• This particular manzanita species was thought to be extinct outside of nurseries until 2009, when one was discovered growing in the Presidio of San Francisco and later moved to a secret location.
  — San Francisco Chronicle, 7 Jan. 2017
• Assemblymember Steve Bennett, D-Ventura, authored the bill to designate the bigberry manzanita, which is native to California, as the state shrub.
  — Kate Wolffe, Sacbee.com, 13 Oct. 2025