. California range brushlands and browse plants. Browse (Animal food); Brush; Forage plants. Scrub interior live oak (Quercus wislizenii var. frutescens). Important browse plant for deer at all seasons. Of little value for livestock except for the acorns which are highly palatable to all foraging animals. 7. Low shrubs with white or whitish bark; leaves gener- ally less than 1 inch long; acorn cup saucer-like, scales warty, acorn shorter and thicker California scrub oak (Quercus dumosa) • 8. Tree; leaves typically roundish, usually convex, pale green beneath and usually with small tufts of hai
. California range brushlands and browse plants. Browse (Animal food); Brush; Forage plants. Scrub interior live oak (Quercus wislizenii var. frutescens). Important browse plant for deer at all seasons. Of little value for livestock except for the acorns which are highly palatable to all foraging animals. 7. Low shrubs with white or whitish bark; leaves gener- ally less than 1 inch long; acorn cup saucer-like, scales warty, acorn shorter and thicker California scrub oak (Quercus dumosa) • 8. Tree; leaves typically roundish, usually convex, pale green beneath and usually with small tufts of hair in the axils of the main veins; acorns maturing the first autumn coast live oak (Quercus agrifolia) 8. Shrub; leaves typically oblong, usually flat, bright yel- low-green beneath and without tufts of hair in the vein axils; acorns maturing the second autumn SCRUB INTERIOR LIVE OAK (Quercus wislizenii var. frutescens) Primary Oak Species The oak species of primary browse importance are difficult to select because grazing animals in different situations vary in their choice. The following species or varieties, however, seem to typify rather well the more palatable oaks over the range as a whole: Scrub interior live oak, California scrub oak, blue oak, and California black oak. Examples of species of secondary rank are: Oregon white oak, canyon live oak, and huckleberry oak. scrub interior live oak (Quercus wislizenii var. fru- tescens) (drawing shown above). Evergreen shrubs 3 to 8 (up to 15) feet high, with stout stiff branches. Leaves ovate or oblong, % inch to 2 inches long, lA to 1 inch wide, stiff, brittle, margins entire or irregularly to regularly spiny toothed; dark green, smooth and shiny above, yellow-green and smooth below. Acorn oblong- ovate, sharply pointed, % inch to Vk inches long, matur- ing the second year; cup with thin, brown hairy, ciliate scales. Distribution (map shown below). This shrub form of the species occupies the dry chaparral regions of the inne
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