NATIVE WOODY PLANTS OF THE UNITED STATES 
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Eurphorbia misera Benth. 
Range: 5, 10. 
Site: Dry, well-drained, sun. 
Fruit: Capsule. 
A small shrub or rarely a large shrub to small tree ; much branched ; 
straggling. 
Eurotia lanata (Pursh) Moq. (pi. 14, B). Winterfat. 
E. siihspinosa Rydb. 
Range : 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 14, 15, 16. 
Site : Dry, well-drained, sun. 
Fruit: Achene, available September-October. 
A small dioecious or monoecious shrub ; occurs on subalkaline soils ; branches 
slender, many from the base ; very rapid growing ; root system spreading but 
deep ; seed produced in great abundance ; 91,000 seeds per pound, vitality transi- 
ent; in direct seeding sown 3 to 4 pounds per acre; germination of seed 30^70 
percent. 
Ohservations: Important winter browse for elk; California mule deer. Very 
valuable forage for sheep and cattle, particularly in the winter and fall; con- 
sidered very fattening for livestock. 
Eiirotia subspinosa, see EuroUa lanata. 
Evonymus sp. 
Observations (in addition to specific records) : Fox sparrow, mockingbird. 
Evonymus americanus L. Strawberrybush. 
Range : 20, 25, 27, 28, 29, 30. 
Site: Dry, well-drained, sun, shade. 
Fruit : Capsule ; available September-October ; seeds with a fleshy aril, 
A small to large shrub; flowers May-June; stems often creeping or trailing, 
rooting at the nodes, or semierect; propagation is by seed stratified and sown 
in spring; 30,000 seeds per pound. 
Stomach records: Five species of birds. 
Evonymns atropurpureus Jacq. Bnrningbnsh. 
Range : 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30. 
Site: Dry, well-drained, moist, sun, shade. 
Fruit : Capsule ; available August-November ; seeds with a fleshy aril. 
A small to large shrub or rarely a small tree to large tree ; flowers May-June ; 
subject to scale and fungus attack ; bark medicinal ; propagation is by seed 
stratified and sown in spring ; 40,000 seeds per pound, germination about 70 
percent, about 8,000 usable plants per pound of seed. 
Stomach records: Three species of birds including Hungarian partridge. 
Ohservations: Palatable to rodents, possibly to deer. A drastic purgative to 
livestock but seldom browsed. 
Evonymus obovatus Nutt. Running strawberrybush. 
Range: 24, 25, 27. 
Site; Well-drained, sun, shade. 
Fruit: Capsule, available August-October; seed with a fleshy aril. 
A small, spreading shrub or trailing vine ; thicket or m_at forming ; branches 
rooting at the nodes ; flowers April-May ; propagation is by seed stratified and 
sown in spring. 
Evonymus occidentalis Nutt. Western burningbush. 
Range : 1, 2, 4, 12. 
Site: Well-drained, moist, shade. 
Fruit: Capsule, available July-October; seed with a fleshy aril. 
A large shrub or rarely small tree; branches slender, straggling; flowers 
May-June ; propagation is by seed stratified and sown in spring. 
Var. parishii Jeps., (E. parishii Trel.) is found in the southern California 
mountains. 
Stomach records: Robin. Not browsed by stock. 
Evonymus parishii, see Evonymus occidentalis. 
Eysenhardtia amorphoides, see Eysenhardtia polystachya. 
Eysenhardtia cobriformis, see Eysenhardtia polystachya. 
