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n. 1 Any of various North American shrubs that deer feed on: 2 # (taxlink Phyllanthopsis phyllanthoides species noshow=1), (vern maidenbrush pedia=1) 3 # (taxlink Symphoricarpos orbiculatus species noshow=1) 4 # ''Ceanothus'' spp. 5 # (taxlink Purshia genus noshow=1) spp.
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Buckbrush is the common name for several species of North American shrubs that deer feed on, including but probably not limited to:
- Phyllanthopsis phyllanthoides, maidenbrush (south-central U.S.)
- Some western North American species of the genus Ceanothus, especially:
- Ceanothus cuneatus
- Purshia tridentata and P. stansburiana (dry regions of western North America)
- Symphoricarpos orbiculatus, native to the eastern United States and Canada
Usage examples of "buckbrush".
Their flanks were gray-green or purplish with gorse, and in the higher regions, clumps of buckbrush and nettleme grew.
The lower slopes were thick with bracken and buckbrush, but as we went higher, we entered an open forest of deciduous trees.
The buckbrush was thick with its seasonal white berries, while the leaves of the alders and birch of the open forest were scarlet and gold.
And we've got a saying you can cut down a buckbrush, but there's always the roots.
Save for scattered clumps of buckbrush and pricklypear and the little patches of twisted grass the ground was bare and there were low mountains to the south and they were bare too.
I hurried her through the dripping trees, over a fallen log, and past a patch of buckbrush that clutched wetly at our legs.
Again he turned away from me, but this time instead of continuing up the path, he stepped off it, into a clump of buckbrush.
I looked up, dizzy, and saw the horse's head, protruding ftom a thicket of buckbrush some thirty feet overhead, Below the thicket, a steep, rocky slope fell away.