DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
SPECIES: Quercus macrocarpa | Bur Oak 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
Bur oak is widely distributed throughout much of the north-central
United States and the eastern Great Plains [40].  It occurs from
southern New Brunswick and New England westward to the Dakotas and
southeastern Montana, and south to Texas, Arkansas, and Tennessee
[10,19].  Bur oak is locally common in Louisiana and Alabama [19].
Quercus macrocarpa var. olivaeformis is largely restricted to Iowa,
Minnesota, South Dakota, and North Dakota.  Quercus macrocarpa var.
depressa occurs mostly along the western margin of the Great Plains
[14].


ECOSYSTEMS : 
   FRES15  Oak - hickory
   FRES17  Elm - ash - cottonwood
   FRES21  Ponderosa pine
   FRES29  Sagebrush
   FRES38  Plains grasslands
   FRES39  Prairie


STATES : 
     AL  AR  CT  DE  IL  IN  IA  KS  KY  LA
     ME  MD  MI  MN  MO  MT  NE  NH  NJ  NY
     ND  OH  OK  PA  RI  SD  TN  TX  VT  VA
     WV  WI  WY  MB  NB  ON  PQ  SK


ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS : 
     BUFF  CUVA  DETO  EFMO  FODO  GWCA
     MACA  MORU  OZAR  PIPE  ROCR  THRO
     VOYA  WICR  WICA


BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS : 
   14  Great Plains 
   15  Black Hills
   16  Upper Missouri Basin and Broken Lands


KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS : 
   K011  Western ponderosa forest
   K016  Eastern ponderosa forest
   K017  Black Hills pine forest
   K056  Wheatgrass - needlegrass shrubsteppe
   K064  Grama - needlegrass - wheatgrass
   K066  Wheatgrass - needlegrass
   K067  Wheatgrass - bluestem - needlegrass
   K070  Sandsage - bluestem prairie
   K074  Bluestem prairie
   K081  Oak savanna
   K098  Northern floodplain forest


SAF COVER TYPES : 
   236  Bur oak
   237  Interior ponderosa pine


SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 
NO-ENTRY


HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES : 
Bur oak is an important dominant in many plant communities.
Publications naming bur oak in habitat type, community type, or plant
asociation classifications are:

Classification of the forest vegetation of Wyoming [2]
Upland hardwood habitat types in southwestern North Dakota [13]
Upland forest and woddland habitat of the Missouri Plateau, Great Plains
  Province [15]
Forest vegetation of the Routt National Forest in northwestern Colorado:
  a habitat classification [16]
Plant assocaitions of Region 2:  Potential plant communities of Wyoming,
  South Dakota, Nebraska, Colorado, and Kansas [17]
Composition and structure of the principle woody vegetation types in the
  North Dakota Badlands [22]
A classification of the Cercocarpus mantanus, Quercus macrocarpa,
  Populus deltoides, & Picea glauca habitat types of the Black Hills NF [32]

Related categories for Species: Quercus macrocarpa | Bur Oak