Interior live oak

Description

Quercus parvula, the Santa Cruz Island Oak, is an evergreen red oak (Series Agrifoliae, Section Lobatae, Series Agrifoliae) found on north-facing Santa Cruz Island slopes and in the California Coast Ranges from Santa Barbara County north to Mendocino County. It was taxonomically combined with Quercus wislizeni until resurrected as a separate species by Kevin Nixon in 1980.The type locality of Q. parvula var. shrevei (originally described by C.H. Muller as Q. shrevei) is Palo Colorado Canyon in Monterey County.