DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
SPECIES: Quercus palustris | Pin Oak 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
Pin oak occurs primarily along major rivers and on glacial till plains
in the north-central and eastern United States.  It is distributed from
southwestern New England; west to extreme southern Ontario, southern
Michigan, northern Illinois, and Iowa; south to Missouri, east Kansas,
and northeastern Oklahoma; and east to central Arkansas, Tennessee,
central North Carolina, and Virginia [19].


ECOSYSTEMS : 
   FRES16  Oak - gum - cypress
   FRES17  Elm - ash - cottonwood


STATES : 
     AR  CT  DE  IL  IN  IA  KS  KY  MD  MA
     MI  MO  NJ  NY  NC  OH  OK  PA  RI  TN
     VT  VA  WV  ON


ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS : 
     ASIS  BLRI  COLO  CUVA  DEWA  EISE
     FIIS  FODO  GATE  GETT  GWMP  HOSP
     INDU  MACA  MANA  MORR  RICH  ROCR
     SARA  SHEN  SHIL  VAFO


BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS : 
NO-ENTRY


KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS : 
   K098  Northern floodplain forest
   K101  Elm - ash forest
   K113  Southern floodplain forest


SAF COVER TYPES : 
    39  Black ash - American elm - red maple
    62  Silver maple - American elm
    65  Pin oak - sweetgum
    95  Black willow


SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 
NO-ENTRY


HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES : 
Pin oak is found in bottomland hardwood communities.  There are four
variants of the SAF cover type pin oak-sweetgum (Liquidambar
styraciflua):  white oak (Quercus alba)-pin oak-sweetgum, pin
oak-American elm (Ulmus americana), pin oak-red maple (Acer rubrum), and
pure pin oak [8].  Nearly pure even-aged stands of pin oak are known as
"pin oak flats" [19].  A pin oak-cherrybark oak (Quercus falcata var.
pagodifolia) community occurs in the Mississippi River Valley in
Illinois [25].

The following publication lists pin oak as a dominant species:

Forests of the Illinoian Till Plain of southwestern Ohio [5]

Related categories for Species: Quercus palustris | Pin Oak