. Common browse plants of the Georgia coastal plain : their chemical composition and contribution to cattle diet. Grazing; Forage plants Georgia. Figure 4. --This young clump of blackgum was burned the previous winter. The following spring, cattle readily ate the young shoots and leaves. Running oak (Quercus pumila Walt.) frequently forms small sparse thickets in the dry well-drained soils of the longleaf-slash pine forest. Very small amounts of the leaves and twigs of this small (1 to 3 feet tall) ever- green shrub are eaten during the spring, summer, and fall. Sawpalmetto (Serenoa repens /TB
. Common browse plants of the Georgia coastal plain : their chemical composition and contribution to cattle diet. Grazing; Forage plants Georgia. Figure 4. --This young clump of blackgum was burned the previous winter. The following spring, cattle readily ate the young shoots and leaves. Running oak (Quercus pumila Walt.) frequently forms small sparse thickets in the dry well-drained soils of the longleaf-slash pine forest. Very small amounts of the leaves and twigs of this small (1 to 3 feet tall) ever- green shrub are eaten during the spring, summer, and fall. Sawpalmetto (Serenoa repens Small) assumes several growth habits. The robust stems of this small to large evergreen shrub may be erect or often creeping and rooting. Occasionally they have a subterranean habit of growth. Plants often group together to form small to very large colonies on a wide variety of sites ranging from excessively drained sandy ridges to poorly drained swamps. In the vicinity of Alapaha, Georgia, this species is eaten more consistently through the year than any other browse. During the spring and summer, cattle exert considerable energy to tug at and pull out the young center leaves from the stem base (fig. 5). Regrowth of the center leaves may be grazed several times during the year. The outer portions of the tough, fibrous, fan leaves are eaten during the fall and winter. Laurel greenbriar (Smilax laurifolia L. ) is a vigorous, high-climbing, evergreen vine with very sharp spines along the main stem. It often forms large entanglements in the swamps and wet woods of the slash pine-blackgum and pond cypress types. Young tendrils are grazed before the spines have become hardened in the early spring. During the winter, when cattle move through the swamps in search of green feed, the leaves are eaten consider- ably (fig. 6). - 7 -. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance
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