. California range brushlands and browse plants. Browse (Animal food); Brush; Forage plants. decree of hairiness, that some five varieties have been described'10". Distribution (map shown below). This common species is found on dry flats, moist slopes, or rocky ridges in the coastal shrub, mixed evergreen forest, redwood forest, and chaparral, from sea level to about 5,500 feet eleva- tion. It occurs in the Coast Ranges from Siskiyou County to San Luis Obispo County and Trinity County south- ward to the San Gabriel and San Bernardino mountains of southern California. Varieties occur inter
. California range brushlands and browse plants. Browse (Animal food); Brush; Forage plants. decree of hairiness, that some five varieties have been described'10". Distribution (map shown below). This common species is found on dry flats, moist slopes, or rocky ridges in the coastal shrub, mixed evergreen forest, redwood forest, and chaparral, from sea level to about 5,500 feet eleva- tion. It occurs in the Coast Ranges from Siskiyou County to San Luis Obispo County and Trinity County south- ward to the San Gabriel and San Bernardino mountains of southern California. Varieties occur intermingled with the species in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada and the Tehachapi mountains. Economic value. California coffeeberry is browsed more by sheep, goats, and deer than by cattle. The young tender sprouts that appear after a fire are the most palata- ble. Although domestic livestock utilize this shrub rather sparinglv, there are exceptions. On the San Joaquin Ex- perimental Range, for example, the current growth was browsed closelv bv cattle (photo on this page). In con- trast, in the foothills east of Berkeley and in various localities northward cattle utilize it rather lightly. On the Inyo winter range in Owens Valley, Inyo County, this shrub accounted for per cent of the total volume of food ingested by mule deer in February, and a somewhat lesser amount in March180'. The crude protein content of the leafage from November to March was low, averaging about per cent, whereas in the young to fully developed current leafage, as from April to August, it averaged approximately 19 per cent'"'60'. The fiber content, ranging from about per cent in the young spring leaves to 15 per cent in the mature Distribution of California coffeeberry (Rhamnus californica).. autumn foliage, tended to be somewhat higher than in such associated evergreen species as wedgeleaf ceano- thus and chaparral whitethorn. The mineral constituents compared favorably with that of thes
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