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Sadler|ˈsædlə(r)| The name of John Sadler (fl. 1871–80), British botanist, used attrib. or in the possessive in Sadler('s) oak to designate Quercus sadleriana, an evergreen shrub with serrate leaves, found in parts of western North America and named in his honour by Robert Brown in 1871 (Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 4th Ser. VII. 249).
1908N. L. Britton N. Amer. Trees 338 Sadler's oak..is an interesting shrub of the high mountains of northwestern California and adjacent Oregon, with sharply serrate leaves. 1939L. Rowntree Flowering Shrubs Calif. ix. 149 When the endemic..Sadler's Oak or Deer Oak, has room to do as it pleases,..it takes on the shape of an inverted pyramid. 1951H. E. McMinn Illustr. Man. Calif. Shrubs 83 Deer Oak. Sadler Oak. An evergreen shrub, 2 to 8 feet high, with many slender flexible stems from the base. |