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§1 Plant
Quercus ilicifolia Wangenh.
vernacular bear oak — species · Fagaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Shrub, Tree
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Fagaceae Dumort.
- Genus
- Quercus
§2a
Native status, by region
- CAN Canada Native
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 182 counties across 13 states/territories§3Cultivation
No cultivation specs.
USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 182 counties across 13 states/territories.
Delaware view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Maine view state ↗ 7 N ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 14 N ▾
New Hampshire view state ↗ 7 N ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 16 N ▾
New York view state ↗ 28 N ▾
- Albany 36001
- Allegany 36003
- Bronx 36005
- Cattaraugus 36009
- Chemung 36015
- Chenango 36017
- Columbia 36021
- Dutchess 36027
- Kings 36047
- Nassau 36059
- New York 36061
- Oneida 36065
- Orange 36071
- Orleans 36073
- Putnam 36079
- Queens 36081
- Rensselaer 36083
- Richmond 36085
- Rockland 36087
- Saratoga 36091
- Schenectady 36093
- Steuben 36101
- Suffolk 36103
- Sullivan 36105
- Ulster 36111
- Warren 36113
- Washington 36115
- Westchester 36119
North Carolina view state ↗ 4 N ▾
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 50 N ▾
- Allegheny 42003
- Bedford 42009
- Berks 42011
- Blair 42013
- Bucks 42017
- Butler 42019
- Cameron 42023
- Carbon 42025
- Centre 42027
- Chester 42029
- Clarion 42031
- Clearfield 42033
- Clinton 42035
- Columbia 42037
- Cumberland 42041
- Dauphin 42043
- Delaware 42045
- Elk 42047
- Fayette 42051
- Forest 42053
- Franklin 42055
- Fulton 42057
- Huntingdon 42061
- Jefferson 42065
- Juniata 42067
- Lackawanna 42069
- Lancaster 42071
- Lebanon 42075
- Lehigh 42077
- Luzerne 42079
- Lycoming 42081
- Mifflin 42087
- Monroe 42089
- Montgomery 42091
- Montour 42093
- Northampton 42095
- Northumberland 42097
- Perry 42099
- Philadelphia 42101
- Pike 42103
- Potter 42105
- Schuylkill 42107
- Snyder 42109
- Somerset 42111
- Union 42119
- Venango 42121
- Warren 42123
- Washington 42125
- Westmoreland 42129
- York 42133
Rhode Island view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Vermont view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 35 N ▾
- Albemarle 51003
- Alleghany 51005
- Amherst 51009
- Appomattox 51011
- Augusta 51015
- Bath 51017
- Bedford 51019
- Bland 51021
- Botetourt 51023
- Buckingham 51029
- Carroll 51035
- Craig 51045
- Culpeper 51047
- Fauquier 51061
- Fluvanna 51065
- Frederick 51069
- Giles 51071
- Greene 51079
- Highland 51091
- Louisa 51109
- Madison 51113
- Montgomery 51121
- Nelson 51125
- Orange 51137
- Page 51139
- Pittsylvania 51143
- Pulaski 51155
- Rappahannock 51157
- Roanoke 51161
- Rockbridge 51163
- Rockingham 51165
- Shenandoah 51171
- Surry 51181
- Warren 51187
- Wythe 51197
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/QUIL ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/2878190 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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