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 ...

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 ...

Mark Frey, an ecologist with the Presidio Trust, helped lead the efforts to transplant the Franciscan manzanita — a plant formerly thought to be extinct in the wild for 70 years — away from a planned ...

The saga over the effort to protect the rare and precious Franciscan Manzanita plant escalated on Tuesday when the San Francisco Wild Equity Institute filed a lawsuit against U.S. Interior Secretary ...