Urban forester, formerly in the Bay, now in SoCal.

"When you investigate, you find that the bushes are undeniably oaks, and you are happy in the acquisition of one more fact to add to your stock of chaparral knowledge. But later on you are in dismay, when you learn that there are several of these scrub-oaks, and that you are not able to tell them apart. If you are of a happy go-lucky sort of disposition, you will just class them all as scrub-oaks and let them go at that. But if you are painfully discriminative, the worry of uncertainty will probably be with you for many a day, for these various scrub-oaks are widely distributed in the Elfin-Forest, and you will be continually running across them."

-Francis M. Fultz