Quercus garryana var. semota Jeps.

Shrubs or small multitrunked trees , spreading and clonal, to 1-5 m. Twigs reddish brown or tan, sparsely puberulent, without spreading hairs. Buds brown or light or brown, ovoid, 2-5 mm, sparsely glandular-puberulent. Leaf blade abaxially light or yellowish green, waxy, not conspicuously velvety, but sometimes tightly felty, sparsely to densely covered with semi-erect 6-8-rayed hairs 0.1-0.3 mm.

It is a temperate plant.

The acorns are made into a fine meal and cooked into a mush. It is allowed to harden into a "cake". The acorns are stored for future use.

Can be grown by seedlings.