30 
very alkali-resistant 
an abundant, 
hort time 
Marsh, Clawson, 
hen at least 1.5 
sodium and potassium salts (oxalates) 
asewood contain. 
IMPORTANT WESTERN BROWSE PLANTS 
en A v 
y a a ae pm as 7 
aero a ee me 
or Cian cael , ‘Ye q' x 
yf 
6 
da 7 
Wy x Py? 
Le a att if 
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C and D, individual fruits; E, staminate (male) spray; F, sterile spray showing bark 
western shrub: A and B, Pistillate (female or fruiting) spray showing thorny twigs; 
on older stems 
(23) states that this is due to the large proportion of oxalic acid and 
and Couch (83) report that poisoning occurs only w 
pounds to the hundredweight of animal is eaten in a very s 
FIGURE 5.—Greasewood (Sarcobatus vermiculatus), 
unusually large quantities of 
which the edible portions of gre 
