Index / Search / Quercus laurifolia
§1 Plant
Quercus laurifolia Michx.
vernacular laurel 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
· 336 counties across 10 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- Low
- Shade
- Low
- Moisture use
- Medium
- Fire
- Low
- Salinity
- None
- Anaerobic
- Low
- CaCO₃
- None
- Hedging
- None
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- -3 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 220 min.
- Precipitation
- 40–70 in/yr
- pH range
- 4.2–6.5
- Root depth
- 36 in min.
- Fertility need
- Low
- Soil texture
- coarse, medium
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Single Stem
- Growth rate
- Rapid
- Lifespan
- Short
- Mature height
- 70 ft
- Height @ 20 y
- 28 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
- Early Spring
- Seed abundance
- Medium
- Seed begins
- Summer
- Seed ends
- Fall
- Spread rate
- Slow
- Stratify
- No
- Seeds / lb
- 560
- Propagation
- seed, bare root, container
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- Routinely Available
- Nursery stock
- Yes
- Browse palatability
- High
- Palatable, human
- No
- Protein potential
- Low
- Lumber
- No
- Fuelwood
- High
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 336 counties across 10 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 44 N ▾
- Autauga 01001
- Baldwin 01003
- Barbour 01005
- Bibb 01007
- Blount 01009
- Bullock 01011
- Butler 01013
- Choctaw 01023
- Clarke 01025
- Coffee 01031
- Conecuh 01035
- Covington 01039
- Crenshaw 01041
- Cullman 01043
- Dale 01045
- Dallas 01047
- Elmore 01051
- Escambia 01053
- Etowah 01055
- Fayette 01057
- Franklin 01059
- Geneva 01061
- Greene 01063
- Hale 01065
- Henry 01067
- Houston 01069
- Jackson 01071
- Lee 01081
- Macon 01087
- Marengo 01091
- Mobile 01097
- Monroe 01099
- Montgomery 01101
- Perry 01105
- Pickens 01107
- Pike 01109
- Randolph 01111
- Russell 01113
- Sumter 01119
- Tuscaloosa 01125
- Walker 01127
- Washington 01129
- Wilcox 01131
- Winston 01133
Arkansas view state ↗ 11 N ▾
Florida view state ↗ 53 N ▾
- Alachua 12001
- Bay 12005
- Brevard 12009
- Broward 12011
- Calhoun 12013
- Citrus 12017
- Clay 12019
- Collier 12021
- Columbia 12023
- DeSoto 12027
- Dixie 12029
- Duval 12031
- Escambia 12033
- Flagler 12035
- Franklin 12037
- Gadsden 12039
- Gilchrist 12041
- Glades 12043
- Gulf 12045
- Hardee 12049
- Hernando 12053
- Holmes 12059
- Indian River 12061
- Jackson 12063
- Jefferson 12065
- Lafayette 12067
- Lake 12069
- Lee 12071
- Leon 12073
- Levy 12075
- Liberty 12077
- Madison 12079
- Manatee 12081
- Marion 12083
- Martin 12085
- Miami-Dade 12086
- Monroe 12087
- Okaloosa 12091
- Orange 12095
- Osceola 12097
- Pasco 12101
- Pinellas 12103
- Polk 12105
- Putnam 12107
- Santa Rosa 12113
- Sarasota 12115
- St. Johns 12109
- Taylor 12123
- Union 12125
- Volusia 12127
- Wakulla 12129
- Walton 12131
- Washington 12133
Georgia view state ↗ 74 N ▾
- Appling 13001
- Atkinson 13003
- Bacon 13005
- Baker 13007
- Ben Hill 13017
- Berrien 13019
- Bleckley 13023
- Brantley 13025
- Brooks 13027
- Bulloch 13031
- Burke 13033
- Calhoun 13037
- Camden 13039
- Charlton 13049
- Chatham 13051
- Clinch 13065
- Coffee 13069
- Colquitt 13071
- Columbia 13073
- Cook 13075
- Crisp 13081
- Decatur 13087
- Dodge 13091
- Dooly 13093
- Dougherty 13095
- Early 13099
- Echols 13101
- Emanuel 13107
- Evans 13109
- Glascock 13125
- Glynn 13127
- Grady 13131
- Henry 13151
- Houston 13153
- Irwin 13155
- Jackson 13157
- Jeff Davis 13161
- Jefferson 13163
- Jenkins 13165
- Johnson 13167
- Laurens 13175
- Lee 13177
- Liberty 13179
- Long 13183
- Macon 13193
- Madison 13195
- McIntosh 13191
- Mitchell 13205
- Montgomery 13209
- Morgan 13211
- Peach 13225
- Pierce 13229
- Pulaski 13235
- Quitman 13239
- Randolph 13243
- Richmond 13245
- Screven 13251
- Sumter 13261
- Tattnall 13267
- Taylor 13269
- Telfair 13271
- Thomas 13275
- Tift 13277
- Toombs 13279
- Treutlen 13283
- Turner 13287
- Twiggs 13289
- Ware 13299
- Washington 13303
- Wayne 13305
- Webster 13307
- Wilcox 13315
- Wilkinson 13319
- Worth 13321
Louisiana view state ↗ 57 N ▾
- Acadia 22001
- Allen 22003
- Ascension 22005
- Assumption 22007
- Avoyelles 22009
- Beauregard 22011
- Bienville 22013
- Bossier 22015
- Caddo 22017
- Calcasieu 22019
- Caldwell 22021
- Cameron 22023
- Catahoula 22025
- Claiborne 22027
- Concordia 22029
- De Soto 22031
- East Baton Rouge 22033
- East Carroll 22035
- East Feliciana 22037
- Evangeline 22039
- Franklin 22041
- Grant 22043
- Iberville 22047
- Jackson 22049
- Jefferson Davis 22053
- Lafayette 22055
- Lafourche 22057
- LaSalle 22059
- Lincoln 22061
- Livingston 22063
- Madison 22065
- Morehouse 22067
- Natchitoches 22069
- Orleans 22071
- Ouachita 22073
- Pointe Coupee 22077
- Rapides 22079
- Red River 22081
- Richland 22083
- Sabine 22085
- St. Charles 22089
- St. Helena 22091
- St. James 22093
- St. John the Baptist 22095
- St. Landry 22097
- St. Martin 22099
- St. Mary 22101
- St. Tammany 22103
- Tangipahoa 22105
- Tensas 22107
- Union 22111
- Vermilion 22113
- Vernon 22115
- Washington 22117
- Webster 22119
- West Carroll 22123
- Winn 22127
Mississippi view state ↗ 24 N ▾
- Choctaw 28019
- Covington 28031
- Forrest 28035
- Franklin 28037
- Greene 28041
- Hancock 28045
- Harrison 28047
- Jackson 28059
- Jasper 28061
- Jones 28067
- Lamar 28073
- Lee 28081
- Leflore 28083
- Madison 28089
- Marion 28091
- Newton 28101
- Pearl River 28109
- Pike 28113
- Scott 28123
- Sharkey 28125
- Smith 28129
- Stone 28131
- Washington 28151
- Wayne 28153
North Carolina view state ↗ 26 N ▾
- Anson 37007
- Bladen 37017
- Brunswick 37019
- Camden 37029
- Carteret 37031
- Craven 37049
- Cumberland 37051
- Currituck 37053
- Dare 37055
- Harnett 37085
- Hertford 37091
- Johnston 37101
- Lenoir 37107
- Moore 37125
- New Hanover 37129
- Northampton 37131
- Onslow 37133
- Pender 37141
- Perquimans 37143
- Pitt 37147
- Robeson 37155
- Sampson 37163
- Scotland 37165
- Tyrrell 37177
- Washington 37187
- Wilson 37195
South Carolina view state ↗ 18 N ▾
Texas view state ↗ 14 N ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 15 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/QULA3 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/2877708 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
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