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§1 Plant
Quercus laevis Walter
vernacular turkey oak — species · Fagaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Tree
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Fagaceae Dumort.
- Genus
- Quercus
§2a
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 218 counties across 8 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- High
- Shade
- High
- Moisture use
- Medium
- Fire
- Medium
- Salinity
- None
- Anaerobic
- None
- CaCO₃
- None
- Hedging
- None
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- -3 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 270 min.
- Precipitation
- 40–70 in/yr
- pH range
- 4–5.8
- Root depth
- 30 in min.
- Fertility need
- Low
- Soil texture
- coarse, medium
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Single Stem
- Growth rate
- Rapid
- Lifespan
- Short
- Mature height
- 40 ft
- Height @ 20 y
- 30 ft
- Foliage texture
- Medium
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Moderate
- Porosity (winter)
- Porous
- Flower colour
- Yellow
- Fruit colour
- Brown
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- None
- Toxicity
- None
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Late Spring
- Seed abundance
- Medium
- Seed begins
- Summer
- Seed ends
- Fall
- Spread rate
- Slow
- Stratify
- Yes
- Seeds / lb
- 395
- Propagation
- seed, bare root, container
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- No Known Source
- Nursery stock
- No
- Browse palatability
- High
- Palatable, human
- No
- Protein potential
- Low
- Lumber
- No
- Fuelwood
- High
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 218 counties across 8 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 29 N ▾
- Autauga 01001
- Baldwin 01003
- Barbour 01005
- Bibb 01007
- Bullock 01011
- Butler 01013
- Chilton 01021
- Choctaw 01023
- Clarke 01025
- Coffee 01031
- Covington 01039
- Crenshaw 01041
- Dale 01045
- Elmore 01051
- Escambia 01053
- Geneva 01061
- Hale 01065
- Henry 01067
- Houston 01069
- Jackson 01071
- Lee 01081
- Macon 01087
- Mobile 01097
- Perry 01105
- Pike 01109
- Russell 01113
- Sumter 01119
- Tuscaloosa 01125
- Washington 01129
Florida view state ↗ 34 N ▾
- Alachua 12001
- Baker 12003
- Bay 12005
- Brevard 12009
- Calhoun 12013
- Collier 12021
- Dixie 12029
- Escambia 12033
- Gadsden 12039
- Gilchrist 12041
- Hernando 12053
- Highlands 12055
- Hillsborough 12057
- Jackson 12063
- Lake 12069
- Leon 12073
- Levy 12075
- Liberty 12077
- Manatee 12081
- Marion 12083
- Martin 12085
- Okaloosa 12091
- Orange 12095
- Osceola 12097
- Palm Beach 12099
- Pasco 12101
- Pinellas 12103
- Polk 12105
- Putnam 12107
- Seminole 12117
- St. Johns 12109
- Sumter 12119
- Wakulla 12129
- Walton 12131
Georgia view state ↗ 77 N ▾
- Appling 13001
- Atkinson 13003
- Bacon 13005
- Baker 13007
- Ben Hill 13017
- Berrien 13019
- Bibb 13021
- Brantley 13025
- Brooks 13027
- Bryan 13029
- Bulloch 13031
- Camden 13039
- Candler 13043
- Charlton 13049
- Chatham 13051
- Chattahoochee 13053
- Clay 13061
- Coffee 13069
- Colquitt 13071
- Columbia 13073
- Cook 13075
- Crawford 13079
- Decatur 13087
- Dodge 13091
- Echols 13101
- Effingham 13103
- Emanuel 13107
- Glascock 13125
- Grady 13131
- Hancock 13141
- Henry 13151
- Houston 13153
- Irwin 13155
- Jackson 13157
- Jasper 13159
- Jeff Davis 13161
- Jefferson 13163
- Jenkins 13165
- Johnson 13167
- Jones 13169
- Lanier 13173
- Laurens 13175
- Lee 13177
- Liberty 13179
- Long 13183
- Macon 13193
- Marion 13197
- McDuffie 13189
- McIntosh 13191
- Montgomery 13209
- Muscogee 13215
- Peach 13225
- Pierce 13229
- Randolph 13243
- Richmond 13245
- Schley 13249
- Screven 13251
- Stewart 13259
- Sumter 13261
- Talbot 13263
- Tattnall 13267
- Taylor 13269
- Telfair 13271
- Thomas 13275
- Tift 13277
- Toombs 13279
- Treutlen 13283
- Turner 13287
- Ware 13299
- Warren 13301
- Washington 13303
- Wayne 13305
- Webster 13307
- Wheeler 13309
- Wilcox 13315
- Wilkinson 13319
- Worth 13321
Louisiana view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Mississippi view state ↗ 16 N ▾
North Carolina view state ↗ 30 N ▾
- Anson 37007
- Beaufort 37013
- Bladen 37017
- Brunswick 37019
- Carteret 37031
- Chowan 37041
- Columbus 37047
- Craven 37049
- Cumberland 37051
- Dare 37055
- Duplin 37061
- Edgecombe 37065
- Gates 37073
- Greene 37079
- Harnett 37085
- Hoke 37093
- Johnston 37101
- Lee 37105
- Lenoir 37107
- Montgomery 37123
- Moore 37125
- New Hanover 37129
- Onslow 37133
- Pamlico 37137
- Pender 37141
- Richmond 37153
- Robeson 37155
- Sampson 37163
- Scotland 37165
- Wilson 37195
South Carolina view state ↗ 26 N ▾
- Aiken 45003
- Allendale 45005
- Bamberg 45009
- Barnwell 45011
- Beaufort 45013
- Berkeley 45015
- Calhoun 45017
- Charleston 45019
- Chesterfield 45025
- Colleton 45029
- Darlington 45031
- Dillon 45033
- Dorchester 45035
- Florence 45041
- Georgetown 45043
- Horry 45051
- Jasper 45053
- Kershaw 45055
- Lancaster 45057
- Lee 45061
- Lexington 45063
- Marion 45067
- Marlboro 45069
- Orangeburg 45075
- Richland 45079
- Sumter 45085
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/QULA2 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/2878626 ↗Record version
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