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§1 Plant

Quercus rubra L. var. ambigua (A. Gray) Fernald

vernacular northern red oak — variety · Fagaceae


USDA
QURUA
GBIF
2880559
Rank
variety
northern red oak (Quercus rubra var. ambigua)
Platephotograph · Sandy WolkenbergCC BY source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

Growth habit
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

· 196 counties across 17 states/territories
Legend Native · 196 Introduced · 0 Both · 0 Hover a county for detail.

§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 196 counties across 17 states/territories.

Delaware view state ↗ 3 N
Kansas view state ↗ 1 N
Kentucky view state ↗ 1 N
Maine view state ↗ 16 N
Massachusetts view state ↗ 12 N
Missouri view state ↗ 3 N
New Hampshire view state ↗ 10 N
New Jersey view state ↗ 18 N
New York view state ↗ 33 N
North Carolina view state ↗ 9 N
Ohio view state ↗ 4 N
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 1 N
Rhode Island view state ↗ 3 N
Tennessee view state ↗ 3 N
Vermont view state ↗ 13 N
Virginia view state ↗ 18 N
West Virginia view state ↗ 48 N

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.

plants.usda.gov/QURUA ↗

GBIF Backbone

Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.

gbif.org/species/2880559 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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