DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
SPECIES: Quercus falcata | Southern Red Oak 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
The typical variety of southern red oak is widespread in the
southeastern United States from Long Island, New York, south to Florida,
west to the Brazos River in east Texas and north into eastern Oklahoma,
Arkansas, southern Illinois, southern Ohio, and western West Virginia.
It occurs only on the coast in the North Atlantic States and primarily
on the Piedmont in the South Atlantic States [4].  It is found
occasionally on uplands of the Blue Ridge Province from Virginia south
to Georgia [59].

Cherrybark oak occurs on the coastal plains from southeastern Virginia
to northwestern Florida and west to the 45 inch (114 cm) rainfall line
in east Texas [25,49].  Although rare in the lower delta, it grows north
in the Mississippi River valley.  Unlike the typical variety, cherrybark
oak is absent from eastern Tennessee, eastern Kentucky, and West
Virginia [25].  In Florida, this variety occurs only on the floodplain
of the Apalachicola River in Jackson and Gadsen counties [8].


ECOSYSTEMS : 
   FRES12  Longleaf - slash pine
   FRES13  Loblolly - shortleaf pine
   FRES14  Oak - pine
   FRES15  Oak - hickory
   FRES16  Oak - gum - cypress


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


ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS : 
     ASIS  BISO  BITH  BUFF  CAHA  CHCH
     COLO  CUGA  CUIS  FODO  GWMP  GRSM
     HOBE  HOSP  MACA  NATR  OBRI  PRWI
     RICH  ROCR  SHIL  WICR


BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS : 
NO-ENTRY


KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS : 
   K084  Cross Timbers
   K089  Black Belt
   K100  Oak - hickory forest
   K111  Oak - hickory - pine forest
   K112  Southern mixed forest
   K113  Southern floodplain forest


SAF COVER TYPES : 
    40  Post oak - blackjack oak
    44  Chestnut oak
    52  White oak - black oak - northern red oak
    70  Longleaf pine
    75  Shortleaf pine
    76  Shortleaf pine - oak
    78  Virginia pine - oak
    79  Virginia pine
    80  Loblolly pine - shortleaf pine
    81  Loblolly pine
    82  Loblolly pine - hardwood
    83  Longleaf pine - slash pine
    88  Willow oak - water oak - diamondleaf oak
    91  Swamp chestnut oak - cherrybark oak
   110  Black oak


SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 
NO-ENTRY


HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES : 
The typical southern red oak variety frequently occurs in transitional
communities between midslope hardwood forests and upland pine (Pinus
spp.) forests [43].  In Florida, southern red oak occurs on the more
mesic, fertile upland longleaf pine (P. palustris) savannas in place of
bluejack and turkey oaks [33,36].  In Texas, southern red oak may be
dominant in the pineywoods and the post oak (Quercus stellata) savanna
communities [49].

Cherrybark oak may codominate with pin oak (Q. palustris) in Illinois
[50].  The swamp chestnut oak (Q. michauxii)-cherrybark oak forest cover
type is located topographically higher and on better drained sites than
the willow oak-water oak-laurel oak type [12].

The following published classifications list southern red oak as a
dominant or codominant species:

Eastern deciduous forest [56]
The natural communities of South Carolina [37]
Forest vegetation of the Big Thicket, southeast Texas [30]
Successional and environmental relationships of the forest vegetation of
  north-central Florida [33]

Related categories for Species: Quercus falcata | Southern Red Oak