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- medium-sized evergreen of southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico with oblong leathery often spiny-edged leaves
How To Use canyon live oak In A Sentence
- Vegetation is wild oat, cheatgrass, flatspine stickweed, California buckthorn, whiteleaf manzanita, honeysuckle, brackenfern, hedgehog dogstail, chaparral coffeeberry, toyon, Pacific poison oak, interior and canyon live oak, Pacific madrone, and scattered ponderosa pine, foothill pine, incense cedar and California black oak.
- The most important evergreen trees of the sclerophyll forest are California live oak, canyon live oak, interior live oak, tanoak, California laurel, Pacific madrone, golden chinkapin, and Pacific bayberry. California Coastal Range Open Woodland-Shrub-Coniferous Forest - Meadow Province (Bailey)