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Plant - summer Granite Mtn - Tr 308
Sue Smith | Leaves Granite Mtn - Tr 308
Sue Smith | Flowers Granite Mtn - Tr 308
Sue Smith | Acorns Granite Mtn - Tr 308
Sue Smith | Bark Granite Mtn - Tr 261
Marv Mazur | Wasp galls County Rd 65A
Sue Smith | |
Origin: Native
General Description: Evergreen. Shrub or small tree; bark light gray, rough, fissured; young twigs densely woolly (rarely without hairs), smooth reddish-brown beneath hairs, older twigs with few hairs, gray. Spring-deciduous.
Identification notes: Shrub or small tree to 20 feet tall. Leaf blades elliptic or oblong, spiny on margins, shallowly lobed, dull green above, densely hairy on lower surface, strongly net-veined on upper surface but not below.
Height: To 15 feet Width: 12 feet
Habitat Description: Found on arid slopes, often among chaparral and pinyon juniper woodlands.
Plant Communities: Interior Chaparral, Semidesert Grasslands, Pinyon Juniper Woodland
Elevation: 2500 - 8000 feet
Color: Yellowish-green Shape: Inconspicuous in elongated clusters
Tubular: N Flowering Period: Mar - Jun
Description: Male and female flowers separate but on the same plant; males in drooping 1 inch long catkins, yellowish-green; female flowers solitary, with 3 styles in leaf axils.
Leaf Color: Dull green to grayish-green Type: Simple Shape: Round or oval Margin: Toothed Attachment: Alternate Hairs: Bottom of leaves
Description: Typically dull green, finely haired beneath, elliptical to oblong, thick, stiff, spiny at margins.
Color: Brown Type: Acorn or acorn-like Description: Acorns up to 1 inch, solitary or several, elliptic, brown; with a scaly, shallow cup enclosing 1/4 to 1/3 of the nut; young acorns are yellowish-green.
Bark Color: Gray, black Bark Texture (Mature): Rough Bark and Branch Description: Gray, scaly and fissured. Twigs slender, reddish-brown with some fine fuzz when young. Sometimes blackened.
Spines, thorns or prickles: Y |
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