Gardeners are beginning to think about spring and may have questions. To ask one, simply go to the OSU Extension website, type it in and include the county where you live. A photo is very helpful. Q: ...

California scientists discovered a new species of manzanita, believed to grow only in places along the state’s south-central coast. And unlike its sister shrubs, its bark is gray instead of red, its ...

A new species of manzanita -- a native California shrub famous for its twisted branches and wildfire resilience -- has been discovered on the central coast, but its survival is already threatened by ...

How much space does a plant need to grow, if its population recently crashed to a single specimen? In the case of the Franciscan Manzanita, a shrub thought to be extinct in the wild until it was ...

On Jan. 16, researchers from San Francisco State University and the University of California, Riverside published a paper in the academic journal PhytoKeys about the Arctostaphylos nipumu species of ...