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Quercus pumila (running oak)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Quercus pumila (runner oak or running oak) is a North American species of oaks in the beech family. It is native to the southeastern United States (Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, and the Carolinas). Quercus pumila is a deciduous shrub usually less than one meter (40 inches) tall. Bark is gray or dark brown. Leaves are up to 10 cm (4 inches) long, with no teeth or lobes, hairless or nearly so on the upper surface, the underside usually with a thick coat of reddish-brown hairs.
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Attributes

Leaf Type [1]  Evergreen
Specific Gravity [2]  0.712
Structure [1]  Shrub

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Canaveral National Seashore II 9090 Florida, United States
Carolinian-South Atlantic Biosphere Reserve 310228 North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, United States      
Central Gulf Coastal Plain Biosphere Reserve 40530 United States  
Hobcaw Barony (North Inlet) National Estuarine Research Reserve 7585 South Carolina, United States

Habitat Vegetation Classification

Name Location  Website 
Florida Panhandle Lowlands Subxeric Longleaf Pine Woodland United States (Florida)
Florida Red Hills Submesic Longleaf Pine Woodland United States (Georgia, Florida)
Georgia Outer Coastal Plain Subxeric Longleaf Pine Woodland United States (Georgia)
Western Florida Panhandle Xeric Lowland Sandhill Longleaf Pine Woodland United States (Florida)

External References

USDA Plant Profile

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

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♦ 1Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 2Chave J, Coomes D, Jansen S, Lewis SL, Swenson NG, Zanne AE (2009) Towards a worldwide wood economics spectrum. Ecology Letters 12: 351-366. Zanne AE, Lopez-Gonzalez G, Coomes DA, Ilic J, Jansen S, Lewis SL, Miller RB, Swenson NG, Wiemann MC, Chave J (2009) Data from: Towards a worldwide wood economics spectrum. Dryad Digital Repository.
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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