DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
SPECIES: Quercus lyrata | Overcup Oak 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
Overcup oak occurs on the Coastal Plain from southern Virginia south to
Georgia and northwestern Florida; west to eastern Texas; north in the
Mississippi Valley to extreme southeastern Oklahoma, southern Illinois,
southwestern Indiana, and western Kentucky.  Disjunct populations occur
in Delaware, Maryland, central Tennessee, and northern Alabama [27,28].


ECOSYSTEMS : 
   FRES12  Longleaf - slash pine
   FRES13  Loblolly - shortleaf pine
   FRES14  Oak - pine
   FRES15  Oak - hickory
   FRES16  Oak - gum - cypress
   FRES17  Elm - ash - cottonwood


STATES : 
     AL  AR  DE  FL  GA  IL  IN  KY  LA  MS
     MO  NC  OK  SC  TN  TX  VA  WV


ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS : 
NO-ENTRY


BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS : 
NO-ENTRY


KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS : 
   K100  Oak - hickory forest
   K113  Southern floodplain forest


SAF COVER TYPES : 
    14  Northern pin oak
    61  River birch - sycamore
    62  Silver maple - American elm
    63  Cottonwood
    65  Pin oak - sweetgum
    87  Sweet gum - yellow-poplar
    88  Willow oak - water oak - diamondleaf oak
    91  Swamp chestnut oak - cherrybark oak
    92  Sweetgum - willow oak
    93  Sugarberry - American elm - green ash
    94  Sycamore - sweetgum - American elm
    95  Black willow
    96  Overcup oak - water hickory
   101  Baldcypress
   102  Baldcypress - tupelo
   103  Water tupelo - swamp tupelo
   104  Sweetbay - swamp tupelo - redbay


SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 
NO-ENTRY


HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES : 
Overcup oak is dominant in only one described cover type, overcup
oak/water hickory (Carya aquatica) [8].  This cover type extended over
1,241,250 acres (496,500 ha) of the lower Mississippi Valley in 1990.
It was the most floristically diverse of the wet-site cover types, with
five species making up 60 percent of the basal area [30].

Tree associates not mentioned previously include laurel oak (Q.
laurifolia), American elm (Ulmus americana), cedar elm (U.
crassifolia), water locust (Gleditsia aquatica), common persimmon
(Diospyros virginiana), hawthorn (Crataegus spp.), planer-tree (Planera
aquatica), and red maple (Acer rubrum).  Shrub associates include
swamp-privet (Forestiera acuminata), roughleaf dogwood (Cornus
drummondii), swamp dogwood (C. stricta), and common buttonbush
(Cephalanthus occidentalis) [12,39].

Related categories for Species: Quercus lyrata | Overcup Oak