DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
SPECIES: Quercus laurifolia | Laurel Oak 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
Laurel oak occurs on the Atlantic and Gulf coastal plains of the
southeastern United States from southeastern Virginia to southern
Florida and west to the extreme southeastern Gulf Coast of Texas.
Disjunct populations occur north of its contiguous coastal range in
Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, and South
Carolina [27].


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


STATES : 
     AL  AR  FL  GA  LA  MS  NC  SC  VA  TN
     TX


ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS : 
     BICY  BITH  CAHA  CALO  COLO  COSW
     CUIS  EVER  FOCA  NATR


BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS : 
NO-ENTRY


KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS : 
   K111  Oak - hickory - pine forest
   K112  Southern mixed forest
   K113  Southern floodplain forest


SAF COVER TYPES : 
    74  Cabbage palmetto
    81  Loblolly pine
    83  Longleaf pine - slash pine
    84  Slash pine
    88  Willow oak - water oak - diamondleaf oak
    92  Sweetgum - willow oak
   102  Baldcypress - tupelo
   103  Water tupelo - swamp tupelo
   104  Sweetbay - swamp tupelo - redbay


SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 
NO-ENTRY


HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES : 
Laurel oak is often present in forested wetlands, a transitional
community between swamps and pine (Pinus spp.) flatlands or mesic
hammocks.  It grows throughout hydric hammocks, from the swamp margin to
the drier sections, being replaced at the very dry end by live oak (Q.
virginiana) and water oak [43].  Q. hemisphaerica is present in high
hammocks which are situated between sand or clay hills and midslope
hammocks [34].  The following published classifications list laurel oak
as a dominant species:

   The natural communities of South Carolina [16]
   Eastern deciduous forest [45]
   Forest vegetation of the Big Thicket, southeast Texas [26]
   Forest associations in the uplands of the lower Gulf Coastal Plain [33]
   The natural features of southern Florida [6]
   Ecological processes and vegetation of the maritime strand in the
      southeastern United States [32]

Related categories for Species: Quercus laurifolia | Laurel Oak