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Quercus incana (bluejack oak)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Quercus incana is a species of oak known by the common names bluejack oak, upland willow oak, sandjack oak, and cinnamon oak. It is native to the Atlantic and Gulf coastal plains of the United States, from Virginia around Florida to Texas and inland to Oklahoma and Arkansas. The wood of Quercus incana is hard and strong, but the trees are usually too small to be good for any uses except fuel or posts. The acorns provide food for many animal species including the Sherman's fox squirrel, which lives in longleaf pine communities.
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Infraspecies

Quercus cinerea f. cinerea

Attributes

Air Quality Improvement [1]  None
Allergen Potential [1]  Medium-High
Carbon Capture [1]  Low
Shade Percentage [1]  79 %
Temperature Reduction [1]  Low
Wind Reduction [1]  Medium-Low
Leaf Type [2]  Deciduous
Specific Gravity [3]  0.66
Structure [2]  Tree
Height [1]  32 feet (9.9 m)
Width [1]  28 feet (8.4 m)
Hardiness Zone Minimum [1]  USDA Zone: 6 Low Temperature: -10 F° (-23.3 C°) → 0 F° (-17.8 C°)
Hardiness Zone Maximum [1]  USDA Zone: 9 Low Temperature: 20 F° (-6.7 C°) → 30 F° (-1.1 C°)
Water Use [1]  Moderate to Low

Protected Areas

Habitat Vegetation Classification

Name Location  Website 
Atlantic Coastal Plain Longleaf Sandhill Scrub United States (South Carolina, North Carolina)
Atlantic Inner Coastal Plain Yellow Sand Longleaf Pine Woodland United States (South Carolina, Georgia)
Carolina Coastal Longleaf Pine Sandhill United States (South Carolina, North Carolina)
Carolina Longleaf Pine / Mixed Scrub Oak Sandhill United States (North Carolina)
Fall-line Sandhills Dry Longleaf Pine Woodland United States (North Carolina, South Carolina)
Florida Panhandle Lowlands Subxeric Longleaf Pine Woodland United States (Florida)
Florida Peninsula Xeric Sandhills Longleaf Pine Woodland United States (Florida)
Florida Red Hills Submesic Longleaf Pine Woodland United States (Georgia, Florida)
Georgia Dry Longleaf Pine - Scrub Oak Sand Woodland United States (Georgia)
Georgia Outer Coastal Plain Subxeric Longleaf Pine Woodland United States (Georgia)
Georgia Xeric Fall-line Sandhills Longleaf Pine Woodland United States (Georgia)
Longleaf Pine / Turkey Oak Woodland United States (Florida, Alabama)
South Atlantic Coastal Plain Dry Longleaf Pine Sandhill United States (Florida)
South Atlantic Dry Longleaf Pine Sandhill United States (South Carolina, Georgia)
South Atlantic Sandhills Subxeric Silty Longleaf Pine Woodland United States (South Carolina, Georgia)
South Carolina Central Longleaf Woodland United States (Georgia, South Carolina)
Southern Inner Coastal Plain Silty Longleaf Pine / Sand Post Oak Woodland United States (South Carolina, Georgia)
Western Florida Panhandle Xeric Lowland Sandhill Longleaf Pine Woodland United States (Florida)
Xeric Upper East Gulf Coastal Plain Longleaf Pine Woodland United States (South Carolina, Georgia)

Predators

Range Map

External References

USDA Plant Profile

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1i-Tree Species v. 4.0, developed by the USDA Forest Service's Northern Research Station and SUNY-ESF using the Horticopia, Inc. plant database.
♦ 2Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 3Forest Inventory and Analysis DB version 5.1, May 4, 2013, U.S. Forest Service
♦ 4Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009
♦ 5HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández
♦ 6New Zealand Institute for Plant & Food Research Plant-SyNZ™ database
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0