Word: manzanita
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...Sixth Army has a new life-and-death assignment: guarding what may be the most imperiled of the more than 2,000 American plants on the endangered species list. The last-known Arctostaphylos hookeri ravenii, commonly called the Presidio Manzanita, is located on a hillside overlooking the Pacific at the Army's Presidio base in San Francisco...
...Manzanita is Spanish for "little apple"-a reference to the tiny berries nestled amid the 4-ft. shrub's shiny green leaves and pink blossoms. Indians used to boil manzanita leaves to make a medicinal tea to treat venereal disease. There are about 50 types of the plant, but the Presidio variety has been dying out as developers paved over its habitat...
...support, and visited her in Arizona while working on the story. Researcher Linda Young staked her claim to the assignment years ago. She regularly visits Arizona's Indian lands on vacation, and last year even bought a piece of the state-1½ acres of juniper and manzanita shrub near Flagstaff...
...nothing more on their minds than a restful lunch. Then came a rising sound of motor traffic, a cloud of dust, the rasp of gravel on rubber as four automobiles slid to a stop near by. From the lead car bounded a bulky, shirtsleeved figure who plunged through the manzanita bush like a startled bull moose, thrust a hand at Mr. Cadwallader, announced simply: "I'm Senator Knowland." After five minutes of picture taking and small talk, William Fife Knowland, his wife, his aides and his escort of 8 newsmen got back into their cars and tore off down...