DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
SPECIES: Quercus velutina | Black Oak 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
Black oak is widely distributed throughout the eastern and central
United States and extreme southwestern Ontario, Canada.  In the United
States, black oak occurs from southwestern Maine west to southern
Wisconsin and southeastern Minnesota; south through Iowa to eastern
Nebraska, eastern Kansas, central Oklahoma, and eastern Texas; and east
to northwestern Florida and Georgia [56].


ECOSYSTEMS : 
   FRES10  White - red - jack pine
   FRES13  Loblolly - shortleaf pine
   FRES14  Oak - pine
   FRES15  Oak - hickory
   FRES18  Maple - beech - birch
   FRES39  Prairie


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
     TX  VT  VA  WV  WI  ON


ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS : 
     ALPO  BISO  BLRI  BUFF  CACO  CATO
     COLO  COSW  CUIS  CUVA  DEWA  FIIS
     FOCA  FODO  GATE  GETT  GWCA  GWMP
     GRSM  HOBE  HOSP  INDU  JOFL  MACA
     MANA  MORR  NATR  NERI  OBRI  OZAR
     PRWI  RICH  ROCR  SARA  SHEN  SHIL
     SLBE  VAFO  WICR


BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS : 
   14  Great Plains


KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS : 
   K081  Oak savanna
   K082  Mosaic of K074 and K100
   K083  Cedar glades
   K095  Great Lakes pine forest
   K100  Oak - hickory forest
   K102  Beech - maple forest
   K104  Appalachian oak forest
   K110  Northeastern oak - pine forest
   K111  Oak - hickory - pine forest
   K112  Southern mixed forest


SAF COVER TYPES : 
    14  Northern pin oak
    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
    75  Shortleaf pine
    76  Shortleaf pine - oak
    78  Virginia pine - oak
    79  Virginia pine
    80  Loblolly pine - shortleaf pine
    82  Loblolly pine - hardwood
   110  Black oak


SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 
NO-ENTRY


HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES : 
Black oak is a common component of many eastern and central upland
deciduous forests.  Black oak also occurs in savannas in the transition
zone between the eastern deciduous forests and the western prairies.

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

Deciduous forest [23]
Classification of forest ecosystems in Michigan [53]
The natural communities of South Carolina [46]
A classification of the deciduous forest of eastern North America [45]
Forest vegetation of the lower Alabama Piedmont [19]
Old-growth forests within the Piedmont of South Carolina [30]
Plant communities of the Coastal Plains of North Carolina and their
   successional relations [66]
Ecological species groups of oak ecosystems of southeastern Michigan [6]
Presettlement vegetation of Lake County, Indiana [7]

Related categories for Species: Quercus velutina | Black Oak