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Definition of Huckleberry oak
1. Noun. A low spreading or prostrate shrub of southwestern United States with small acorns and leaves resembling those of the huckleberry.
Group relationships: Genus Quercus, Quercus
Generic synonyms: Bush, Shrub
Lexicographical Neighbors of Huckleberry Oak
Literary usage of Huckleberry oak
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Trees of California by Willis Linn Jepson (1909)
"huckleberry oak. (Fig. 92.) Shrub, prostrate, or erect and 2 to 6 feet high, the
slender pliable branchlets in tufts at top of stems, simulating the habit ..."
2. Outdoor Heritage by Harold Child Bryant (1919)
"A dwarf oak of high elevations in the mountains shows lose relationship to the
golden-cupped oak even to the alor of the acorn cups. huckleberry oak ..."
3. The Tree Book: A Popular Guide to a Knowledge of the Trees of North America by Julia Ellen Rogers (1905)
"In the highest elevations, 8,0oo to 9,0oo feet above the sea, this oak is reduced
to a foot in height. This is the "huckleberry oak" of the Sierra Nevada ..."
4. The Silva of California by Willis Linn Jepson (1910)
"The huckleberry oak grows at high altitudes (6000 to 9000 feet) throughout the
Sierra Nevada and high North Coast Ranges, and often occurs in great ..."
5. A Flora of Western Middle California by Willis Linn Jepson (1911)
"huckleberry oak. Low evergreen shrub; brandies slender and pliable, forming
broom-like tufts at top of stems; leaves very small. mostly entire, ..."
6. The Broad-sclerophyll Vegetation of California: An Ecological Study of the by William Skinner Cooper (1922)
"huckleberry oak. Inner north Coast Ranges from Mount Shasta to Trinity County;
throughout the higher forest region of the Sierra Nevada. ..."
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