DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
SPECIES: Quercus garryana | Oregon White Oak 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
Oregon white oak is distributed along the Pacific Coast from
southwestern British Columbia, including Vancouver Island, south through
western Washington and Oregon to the Coast Ranges and the Sierra Nevada
in southern California [4,32,38].

Brewer oak occurs in the higher elevations of the Coastal, Klamath,
Cascade, and Transverse Ranges, and the Sierra Nevada [38,51].


ECOSYSTEMS : 
   FRES20  Douglas-fir
   FRES21  Ponderosa pine
   FRES22  Western white pine
   FRES23  Fir - spruce
   FRES24  Hemlock - Sitka spruce
   FRES27  Redwood
   FRES28  Western hardwoods
   FRES34  Chaparral - mountain shrub
   FRES35  Pinyon - juniper
   FRES42  Annual grasslands


STATES : 
     CA  OR  WA  BC


ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS : 
     CRLA  MORA  REDW  SAJH  WHIS  YOSE


BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS : 
    1  Northern Pacific Border
    2  Cascade Mountains
    3  Southern Pacific Border
    4  Sierra Mountains


KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS : 
   K001  Spruce - cedar - hemlock forest
   K002  Cedar - hemlock - Douglas-fir forest
   K003  Silver fir - Douglas-fir forest
   K004  Fir - hemlock forest
   K005  Mixed conifer forest
   K006  Redwood forest
   K009  Pine - cypress forest
   K010  Ponderosa shrub forest
   K011  Western ponderosa forest
   K012  Douglas-fir forest
   K013  Cedar - hemlock - pine forest
   K020  Spruce - fir - Douglas-fir forest
   K023  Juniper - pinyon woodland
   K026  Oregon oakwoods
   K028  Mosaic of K002 and K026
   K029  California mixed evergreen forest
   K030  California oakwoods
   K033  Chaparral
   K034  Montane chaparral
   K048  California steppe


SAF COVER TYPES : 
   205  Mountain hemlock
   211  White fir
   213  Grand fir
   215  Western white pine
   220  Rocky Mountain juniper
   221  Red alder
   224  Western hemlock
   226  Coastal true fir - hemlock
   227  Western redcedar - western hemlock
   228  Western redcedar
   229  Pacific Douglas-fir
   230  Douglas-fir - western hemlock
   231  Port-Orford-cedar
   232  Redwood
   233  Oregon white oak
   234  Douglas-fir - tanoak - Pacific madrone
   238  Western juniper
   241  Western live oak
   243  Sierra Nevada mixed conifer
   244  Pacific ponderosa pine - Douglas-fir
   245  Pacific ponderosa pine
   246  California black oak
   248  Knobcone pine
   249  Canyon live oak
   250  Blue oak - Digger pine
   255  California coast live oak


SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 
NO-ENTRY


HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES : 
Oregon white oak occurs in open savannas or in monospecific closed-canopy
stands.  It is also found in mixed stands with conifers or other
broad-leaved trees [13].  The following classifications list Oregon
white oak as a dominant species:

     Preliminary plant associations of the southern Oregon Cascade
        Mountain Province [5]
     Association types in the North Coast Ranges of California [15]
     Oak woodland [24]
     Foothill oak woodlands of the interior valleys of southwestern
       Oregon [42]
     Mixed evergreen forest [45]
     Plant associations within the interior valleys of the Umpqua River
       Basin, Oregon [46]
     Vegetation of the bald hills oak woodlands, Redwood National Park,
        California [48]
     The Quercus garryana forests of the Willamette Valley, Oregon [50]
     The redwood forest and associated North Coast forests [55]

Brewer oak forms dense, extensive pure stands. The "shin oak"
communities of southern California are dominated by this variety
[15,30].  The following classifications list Brewer oak as a dominant
species:

     Terrestrial natural communities of California [30]
     Association types in the North Coast Ranges of California [15]

Related categories for Species: Quercus garryana | Oregon White Oak