With development of Chinese animal husbandry, shortage of feedstuffs is a main limit factor for livestock development. Rush bushclover (RB) and shrubby sweetvetch (SS) have the characteristics of high biomass, drought resistance, leanness tolerance. Moreover, they are of high nutritive value, rich in crude protein (CP), and potential new resources for livestock feed. Shurb is seldom used as material to make silage as legumes are often considered hard to ensile well due to low fermentable carbohydrate content in combination with a high buffering capacity (BC). Whole-crop corn is ascribed to easy ensiling procedure and has high fermentative quality and palatability for cows, because of the chemical composition of corn, mainly in high fermentable carbohydrates. Silage produced from a mixture of whole-crop corn and 2 kinds of shrub is likely to have a better fermentation quality and nutritive value compared with silage consisting solely of herbage from RB and SS. RB and SS (315 and 274 g dry matter per kg) were cut into 2 to 5 cm by a rubbing filament machine and ensiled in 1.5 L laboratory silos with whole-crop corn as mixtures of 1, 0.7, 0.5, and 0.3 of fresh weight (FW). After 60 d, the nutrition and fermentation quality of all treatments were analyzed. Results showed that the pH of silage consisting solely of herbage from RB and SS were significantly (P < 0.05) higher and the lactic acid content were significantly (P < 0.05) lower than silages mixed with whole-crop corn. With the increase of the proportion of corn, lactic acid and acetic acid content also increased (P < 0.05). Dry matter and WSC content decreased with the increase of the proportion of corn (P < 0.05). In conclusion, RB and SS with a high BC and a low WSC concentration is best ensiled using whole-crop corn. Inclusion of 0.5 to 0.7 of whole-crop corn is recommended to ensure a good fermentation.