NOUN
- any of various chiefly American small shrubby oaks often a dominant form on thin dry soils sometimes forming dense thickets
How To Use scrub oak In A Sentence
- He holds a garland of morning glories, a personal emblem signifying affection and awakening, while leaves and acorns from the scrub oak of the land are a sign of courage and independence.
- Other common species are Christmasberry, California scrub oak, mountain mahogany, and many species of ceanothus. California Coastal Range Open Woodland-Shrub-Coniferous Forest - Meadow Province (Bailey)
- The Fallen Road development used to be a thick pine woods with small scrub oak and dense thickets of cabbage palm.
- The glacial till barrens are a mosaic of shrublands with scattered pitch pines variously dominated by scrub oak (Quercus ilicifolia), sheep-laurel (Kalimia angustifolia), and rhodora (Rhododendron canadense); a small proportion of the barrens consists of pitch pine woodlands. Ecoregions of Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia (EPA)
- The Fall Line Sand Hills is home to several related but distinctive plant communities: longleaf pine-scrub oak forests, Atlantic white cedar swamps, and pocosin community types.
- Many species of ‘plains game’ and dangerous game in Africa are hunted amid thick cover similar to the mesquite brush and scrub oak common across Texas.
- They prefer grasslands, chaparral, and scrub oak areas to forage for food.
- In many cases a plant called chaparral or it's scrub oaks or it's the low grasses that grow with it. CNN Transcript Oct 23, 2007
- Shrublands: Bigpod ceanothus series, Black sage series, California sagebrush series, California sagebrush - black sage series, Chamise series, Coast prickly-pear series, Mixed sage series, Scrub oak series, White sage series. Southern Channel Islands (Bailey)
- Manzanita, scrub oak, chamise, laurel sumac, ceanothus, and buckwheat are types of chaparral, which thrives in Southern California's Mediterranean climate of mild winters with moderate precipitation and hot, dry summers. Chris McGowan: A Clockwork Apocalypse: The Southern California Wildfire