DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
SPECIES: Quercus kelloggii | California Black Oak 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
California black oak is distributed along foothills and lower mountains
of California and southern Oregon.  It is found from Lane County, Oregon
south through the Cascade Range, the Sierra Nevada, and the Coast,
Transverse, and Peninsular ranges to San Diego County, California
[18,31].


ECOSYSTEMS : 
   FRES20  Douglas-fir
   FRES21  Ponderosa pine
   FRES27  Redwood
   FRES28  Western hardwoods
   FRES34  Chaparral - mountain shrub


STATES : 
     CA  OR


ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS : 
     KICA  LAVO  REDW  SEQU  YOSE


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


KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS : 
   K005  Mixed conifer forest
   K006  Redwood forest
   K009  Pine - cypress forest
   K010  Ponderosa shrub forest
   K011  Western ponderosa forest
   K026  Oregon oakwoods
   K028  Mosaic of K002 and K026
   K029  California oakwoods
   K033  Chaparral
   K034  Montane chaparral


SAF COVER TYPES : 
   229  Pacific Douglas-fir
   231  Port-Orford-cedar
   232  Redwood
   233  Oregon white oak
   234  Douglas-fir - tanoak - Pacific madrone
   244  Pacific ponderosa pine - Douglas-fir
   245  Pacific ponderosa pine
   246  California black oak
   247  Jeffrey pine
   248  Knobcone pine
   249  Canyon live oak
   250  Blue oak - gray pine
   255  California coast live oak


SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 
NO-ENTRY


HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES : 
California black oak occurs in pure or mixed stands.  Pure stands
usually indicate sites unfavorable to conifer growth or reoccurring
disturbance such as fire or logging activities [15].  Published
classifications naming California black oak as a dominant species are
as follows:

A classification system for California's hardwoods rangelands [1].
California upland forests and woodlands [2].
Montane and subalpine vegetation of the Sierra Nevada and Cascade Ranges [38].
Mixed evergreen forest [40].
Montane and subalpine forests of the Transverse and Peninsular Ranges [43].
An introduction to the plant communities of the Santa Ana and San
  Jacinto Mountains [45].
The redwood forest and associated North Coast forests [48].

Related categories for Species: Quercus kelloggii | California Black Oak