DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
SPECIES: Quercus rubra | Northern Red Oak 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
Northern red oak is widely distributed throughout much of the eastern
United States and southeastern Canada.  It grows from Quebec, Ontario,
Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick southward to southwestern Georgia and
Alabama [39,101].  Northern red oak extends westward through Minnesota
and Iowa, south through eastern Nebraska and Kansas to eastern Oklahoma
[101].  It occurs locally in eastern and southwestern Louisiana and
western Mississippi [39,69].

The variety rubra grows in Georgia and Alabama, northward through
Kentucky, Tennessee, and West Virginia to New England [93,104].  The
variety borealis occurs farther north than variety rubra does [30].
Variety borealis occurs in Virginia, Tennessee, and North Carolina in
the South and extends northward throughout New England to Maine
[39,104].


ECOSYSTEMS : 
   FRES10  White - red - jack pine
   FRES13  Loblolly - shortleaf pine
   FRES14  Oak - pine
   FRES15  Oak - hickory
   FRES18  Maple - beech - birch
   FRES19  Aspen - birch


STATES : 
     AL  AR  CT  DE  FL  GA  IL  IN  IA  KS
     KY  LA  ME  MD  MA  MI  MN  MS  MO  NE
     NH  NJ  NY  NC  OH  OK  PA  RI  SC  TN
     VT  VA  WA  WV  WI  NB  NS  ON  PE  PQ


ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS : 
     ACAD  ALPO  ANTI  BISO  BLRI  BUFF
     CATO  CHCH  CUGA  DEWA  EFMO  FIIS
     FODO  GATE  GWMP  GRSM  HOBE  HOSP
     INDU  ISRO  JOFL  MACA  MANA  MORR
     NATR  NERI  OBRI  OZAR  PIRO  RICH
     SARA  SLBE  VAFO  VOYA  WICR


BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS : 
NO-ENTRY


KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS : 
   K095  Great Lakes pine forest
   K099  Maple - basswood
   K100  Oak - hickory forest
   K102  Beech - maple
   K103  Mixed mesophytic forest
   K104  Appalachian oak forest
   K110  Northeastern oak - pine forest
   K111  Oak - hickory pine forest


SAF COVER TYPES : 
     1  Jack pine 
    14  Northern pin oak
    15  Red pine
    17  Pin cherry
    18  Paper birch
    19  Gray birch - red maple
    20  White pine - northern red oak - red maple
    21  Eastern white pine
    22  White pine - hemlock
    23  Eastern hemlock
    25  Sugar maple - beech - yellow birch
    26  Sugar maple - basswood
    27  Sugar maple
    28  Black cherry - maple
    29  Black cherry
    40  Post oak - blackjack oak
    42  Bur oak
    43  Bear oak
    44  Chestnut oak
    45  Pitch pine
    46  Eastern redcedar
    51  White pine - chestnut oak
    52  White oak - black oak - northern red oak
    53  White oak
    55  Northern red oak
    57  Yellow poplar
    58  Yellow poplar - eastern hemlock
    59  Yellow poplar - white oak - northern red oak
    60  Beech - sugar maple
    82  Loblolly pine - hardwood
   108  Red maple
   110  Black oak


SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 
NO-ENTRY


HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES : 
Northern red oak occurs as a dominant in many communities [77],
including mixed mesophytic forests, pine-oak communities, and southern
bottomland forests [12,110].

Publications listing northern red oak as an indicator or dominant in
habitat type (hts) classifications are presented below:

Area              Classification                Authority
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n MI, ne WI       general veg. hts              Coffman and others 1980
n WI              general veg. hts              Kotar and others 1988

Related categories for Species: Quercus rubra | Northern Red Oak