DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
SPECIES: Quercus nigra | Water Oak 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
Water oak occurs on the Southeastern Coastal Plain from southern New
Jersey and Delaware to southern Florida and west to eastern Texas.  It
occurs north along the Mississippi Valley to southeastern Oklahoma,
Arkansas, Missouri, and southwestern Tennessee [50].


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


STATES : 
     AL  AR  FL  GA  LA  MD  MS  MO  NJ  NC
     OK  SC  TN  TX  VA


ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS : 
     ASIS  BISO  BITH  CAHA  CHCH  COLO
     COSW  CUIS  FOCA  HOBE  JELA  MACA
     NATR  SHIL


BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS : 
NO-ENTRY


KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS : 
   K098  Northern floodplain forest
   K111  Oak - hickory - pine forest
   K112  Southern mixed forest
   K113  Southern floodplain forest


SAF COVER TYPES : 
    70  Longleaf pine
    74  Cabbage palmetto
    80  Loblolly pine - shortleaf pine
    81  Loblolly pine
    82  Loblolly pine - hardwood
    83  Longleaf pine - slash pine
    84  Slash pine
    85  Slash pine - hardwood
    88  Willow oak - water oak - diamondleaf oak
    89  Live oak
    91  Swamp chestnut oak - cherrybark oak
    92  Sweetgum - willow oak
    93  Sugarberry - American elm - green ash
    94  Sycamore - sweetgum - American elm
   104  Sweetbay - swamp tupelo - redbay
   111  South Florida slash pine


SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 
NO-ENTRY


HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES : 
Water oak occurs primarily in bottomland forests.  The following
published classifications list water oak as a dominant species:

   The natural communities of South Carolina [33]
   Forest vegetation of the lower Alabama Piedmont [16]
   Eastern deciduous forest [52]
   Forest associations in the uplands of the lower Gulf Coastal Plain [36]

Related categories for Species: Quercus nigra | Water Oak