DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
SPECIES: Quercus phellos | Willow Oak 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
Willow oak occurs on the Atlantic and Gulf coastal plains from New
Jersey and southeastern Pennsylvania to Georgia and northern Florida;
west to east Texas; and north in the Mississippi River valley to
southeastern Oklahoma, Arkansas, southeastern Missouri, southern
Illinois, western and southern Kentucky, and eastern Tennessee.  Willow
oak is absent from peninsular Florida and southeastern Georgia [21,30].


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


STATES : 
     AL  AR  DE  FL  GA  IL  KY  LA  MD  MO
     MS  NC  NJ  NY  OK  PA  SC  TN  TX  VA


ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS : 
     ASIS  BISO  BITH  CACO  CHCH  COLO
     COSW  FOCA  FODO  GATE  GWMP  HOBE
     HOSP  MACA  MANA  NATR  RICH  ROCR
     SHIL


BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS : 
NO-ENTRY


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


SAF COVER TYPES : 
    65  Pin oak - sweetgum
    80  Loblolly pine - shortleaf pine
    81  Loblolly pine
    82  Loblolly pine - hardwood
    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
    96  Overcup oak - water hickory


SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 
NO-ENTRY


HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES : 
Willow oak is commonly found in transitional communities between swamps
and upland mesic forests [1,28].  The willow oak-water oak-laurel oak
(Q. laurifolia) forest cover type is located topographically between the
swamp chestnut oak (Q. michauxii)-cherrybark oak (Q. falcata var.
pagodifolia) type on the higher, better drained sites and the overcup
oak (Q. lyrata)-water hickory (Carya aquatica) type on the lower, more
poorly drained sites.  Within the willow oak-water oak-laurel oak type,
willow oak is generally located between laurel oak on the more poorly
drained sites and water oak on the better drained sites [10].  The
following published classifications list laurel oak as a dominant
species:

   Southern swamps and marshes [28]
   Forest vegetation of the Big Thicket, southeast Texas [23]
   Eastern deciduous forest [38]
   The natural communities of South Carolina [25]

Related categories for Species: Quercus phellos | Willow Oak