DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
SPECIES: Diospyros virginiana | Common Persimmon 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
Common persimmon is distributed from southern Connecticut and Long
Island, New York to southern Florida.  Inland it occurs in central
Pennsylvania, southern Ohio, southern Indiana, and central Illinois to
southeastern Iowa; and southeastern Kansas and Oklahoma to the Valley of
the Colorado River in Texas.  It does not grow in the main range of the
Appalachian Mountains, nor in much of the oak-hickory forest type of the
Allegheny Plateau [8,12,15].


ECOSYSTEMS : 
   FRES12  Longleaf - slash pine
   FRES13  Loblolly - shortleaf pine
   FRES14  Oak - pine
   FRES15  Oak - hickory
   FRES16  Oak - gum - cypress


STATES : 
     AL  AR  CT  DE  FL  GA  IL  KS  KY  LA
     MD  MS  MO  NJ  NC  OH  OK  PA  SC  TN
     TX  VA  WV


ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS : 
     ASIS  BICY  BISO  BITH  BLRI  BUFF
     CACO  CAHA  CALO  CATO  CHCH  COLO
     COSW  CUGA  CUIS  DEWA  EVER  FOCA
     FODO  GWCA  GWMP  GRSM  HOBE  HOSP
     JELA  LAMR  MACA  MANA  NATR  NERI
     OBRI  OZAR  PRWI  RICH  ROMO  SHEN
     SHIL  WICR


BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS : 
NO-ENTRY


KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS : 
   KO89  Black Belt
   K090  Live oak - sea oats
   K100  Oak - hickory forest
   K104  Appalachian oak forest
   K111  Oak - hickory - pine forest
   K112  Southern mixed forest
   K113  Southern floodplain forest


SAF COVER TYPES : 
    64  Sassafras - persimmon
    70  Longleaf pine
    72  Southern scrub oak
    80  Loblolly pine - shortleaf pine
    81  Loblolly pine
    82  Loblolly pine - hardwood
    83  Longleaf pine - slash pine
    84  Slash pine
    92  Sweetgum - willow oak
    93  Sugarberry - American elm - green ash
    96  Overcup oak - water hickory
   101  Baldcypress
   102  Baldscypress - tupelo


SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 
NO-ENTRY


HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES : 
Common persimmon is found in many plant associations, but it is not an
indicator of any particular habitat [6,33].

Related categories for Species: Diospyros virginiana | Common Persimmon