[mike]

Found this attractive shrub at one of my frequented places. Small and low to the ground and usually overwhelmed by the grass etc. Hadn't paid much attention but the red berries really caught my eye last week. There are quite a few plants in one area a few feet back from the beach. So anyone know what it is?

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[Snowshoe Hare]

I can't resist....... naw.....too obvious.

[peppersteak'n'ale]

That looks like some type of cotoneaster, like you would plant in your yard. Can't say I know if it's native to the area

[jenjen]

It's kinikinik (sp?). Yes, it's native here.

[sten]

Looks like cotoneaster, aka a bug highway into your house if planted too closely to it, and difficult to eradicate. May be called kinnikinnik by some, but what I know as kinnikinnik is Arctostaphylos uva-ursi , a different plant.

[greg]

Looks to me like an introduced invasive cotoneaster, like Sten says. Leaves are wrong shape for kinnickinnick. Here's from a Park Service web site. Cotoneaster franchetti Rose family Where is it from? Franchet cotoneaster was introduced as an ornamental from central Asia. Where are you likely to find it? Cotoneasters are shrubs popular in landscaping, but Franchet cotoneaster and silverleaf cotoneaster (Cotoneaster pannosa) escape from cultivation in northwestern California. Of the two, Franchet cotoneaster invades the native vegetation much more aggressively. Franchet cotoneaster thrives and produces abundant berry crops in vacant lots, along roadsides, fencelines, and in the native coastal scrub. This cotoneaster also tolerates shade, invading coastal alder, spruce, and redwood forests and producing berries. Most of the cotoneaster established in the Redwood National and State Parks is near the developed areas and abandoned homesteads from which it spread. Only isolated individuals are found more widely dispersed elsewhere throughout the parks at the present time. What makes it a "BAD" plant? Cotoneaster alters ecosystem functions: It competes aggressively for light and physical space, displacing native shrubs, such as thimbleberry, huckleberry and salal. It fruits in winter (rather than summer and fall like the native shrubs), attracting wintering birds to eat the berries and to selectively spread cotoneaster seed in their droppings.

[marta]

I think it is cotoneaster also. Not native. It could be cotoneaster horizontalis.

[Alan Bauer]

Another very strong vote for cotoneaster here. Kinnickinick doesn't have leaves like that.

[mike]

Well too bad if it's a cotoneaster as this area is already taking a beating from invasives.

[Rigafari]

cotoneaster

[KellieD]

This horticulturist is going with cotoneaster horizontalis for sure.