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§1 Plant
Quercus pumila Walter
vernacular running oak — species · Fagaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Shrub
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Fagaceae Dumort.
- Genus
- Quercus
§2a
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 111 counties across 6 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- High
- Shade
- High
- Moisture use
- Low
- Fire
- Low
- Salinity
- None
- Anaerobic
- Low
- CaCO₃
- Low
- Hedging
- None
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- 12 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 220 min.
- Precipitation
- 36–56 in/yr
- pH range
- 4.6–6
- Root depth
- 20 in min.
- Fertility need
- Low
- Soil texture
- coarse, medium
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Single Crown
- Growth rate
- Slow
- Lifespan
- Long
- Mature height
- 3 ft
- Height @ 20 y
- 1 ft
- Foliage texture
- Medium
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Porous
- Porosity (winter)
- Porous
- Flower colour
- Yellow
- Fruit colour
- Brown
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- None
- Toxicity
- None
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Spring
- Seed abundance
- Low
- Seed begins
- Summer
- Seed ends
- Fall
- Spread rate
- Slow
- Stratify
- Yes
- Propagation
- seed, bare root, container
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- No Known Source
- Nursery stock
- No
- Browse palatability
- High
- Graze palatability
- Low
- Palatable, human
- No
- Lumber
- No
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 111 counties across 6 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 6 N ▾
Florida view state ↗ 29 N ▾
- Alachua 12001
- Broward 12011
- Calhoun 12013
- Collier 12021
- Duval 12031
- Escambia 12033
- Franklin 12037
- Gadsden 12039
- Gulf 12045
- Hardee 12049
- Highlands 12055
- Hillsborough 12057
- Jackson 12063
- Jefferson 12065
- Lake 12069
- Lee 12071
- Leon 12073
- Levy 12075
- Liberty 12077
- Miami-Dade 12086
- Palm Beach 12099
- Pasco 12101
- Pinellas 12103
- Santa Rosa 12113
- St. Johns 12109
- Suwannee 12121
- Taylor 12123
- Wakulla 12129
- Walton 12131
Georgia view state ↗ 46 N ▾
- Appling 13001
- Atkinson 13003
- Ben Hill 13017
- Berrien 13019
- Brantley 13025
- Brooks 13027
- Bryan 13029
- Bulloch 13031
- Camden 13039
- Candler 13043
- Charlton 13049
- Chatham 13051
- Clinch 13065
- Coffee 13069
- Colquitt 13071
- Cook 13075
- Decatur 13087
- Echols 13101
- Effingham 13103
- Emanuel 13107
- Glynn 13127
- Grady 13131
- Houston 13153
- Irwin 13155
- Jackson 13157
- Jasper 13159
- Jeff Davis 13161
- Jefferson 13163
- Jenkins 13165
- Lanier 13173
- Liberty 13179
- Long 13183
- Lowndes 13185
- McIntosh 13191
- Pierce 13229
- Screven 13251
- Seminole 13253
- Tattnall 13267
- Telfair 13271
- Thomas 13275
- Tift 13277
- Toombs 13279
- Turner 13287
- Ware 13299
- Wayne 13305
- Worth 13321
Mississippi view state ↗ 2 N ▾
North Carolina view state ↗ 8 N ▾
South Carolina view state ↗ 20 N ▾
- Allendale 45005
- Bamberg 45009
- Beaufort 45013
- Berkeley 45015
- Calhoun 45017
- Charleston 45019
- Clarendon 45027
- Colleton 45029
- Darlington 45031
- Dorchester 45035
- Florence 45041
- Georgetown 45043
- Hampton 45049
- Horry 45051
- Jasper 45053
- Lee 45061
- Orangeburg 45075
- Richland 45079
- Sumter 45085
- Williamsburg 45089
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/QUPU80 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/2878192 ↗Record version
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