How to Use manzanita in a Sentence

manzanita

noun

• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Mountain slopes once cloaked by manzanita, chemise and other chaparral were rendered into moonscapes.
  — Tom Stienstra, San Francisco Chronicle, 22 Oct. 2017
• 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
• 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
• 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
• This past summer, bracken ferns, grass and wildflowers emerged in charred soils beneath tree skeletons. Exposed slopes where dry chemise and manzanita were incinerated remain largely barren.
  — Tom Stienstra, San Francisco Chronicle, 22 Oct. 2017
• 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
• 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
• This sale features drought-tolerant Southwestern, California native and Australian plants — including ceanothus, tecoma, manzanita and westringia — as well as cactuses, succulents, tomato and vegetable seedlings, fruit trees and herbs.
  — Jeanette Marantos, latimes.com, 22 Mar. 2018

Last Updated: 9 Aug 2024