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Map of Tribal Jurisdictional Areas in Oklahoma. This is a list of federally recognized Native American Tribes in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. With its 38 federally recognized tribes, [1] Oklahoma has the third largest numbers of tribes of any state, behind Alaska and California.
Quercus fusiformis (also often referred to as Q. virginiana var. fusiformis), commonly known as escarpment live oak, plateau live oak, plateau oak, or Texas live oak, is an evergreen or nearly evergreen tree. [2] Its native range includes the Quartz Mountains and Wichita Mountains in southwestern Oklahoma, [3] through Texas, to the Mexican ...
In the United States, the forest cover by state and territory is estimated from tree-attributes using the basic statistics reported by the Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) program of the Forest Service. [2] Tree volumes and weights are not directly measured in the field, but computed from other variables that can be measured. [3] [4]
Oklahoma has 41 state parks, two national protected forests or grasslands, [12] and a network of wildlife preserves and conservation areas. Six percent of the state's 10 million acres (40,000 km 2 ) of forest is public land, [ 11 ] including the western portions of the Ouachita National Forest , the largest and oldest national forest in the ...
This category contains the native flora of Oklahoma as defined by the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions. Taxa of the lowest rank are always included; taxa of higher ranks (e.g. genus) are only included if monotypic or endemic. Include taxa here that are endemic or have restricted distributions (e.g. only a few countries).
An extension in two branches of the Cross Timbers into southwestern Oklahoma, this area features reduced tree density and height, but also small forests dominated by sugar maple, bur oak, and live oak in deeper river canyons. The towns of Duncan, Oklahoma and Walters, Oklahoma, lie in this region. [2]
Cercis canadensis, the eastern redbud, is a large deciduous shrub or small tree, native to eastern North America from southern Michigan south to central Mexico, west to New Mexico. Species thrive as far west as California and as far north as southern Ontario. [3] It is the state tree of Oklahoma.
The etymology of the name is unclear. It is reasonable to believe that the mountain was named for the species of tree named Blackjack Oak (a.k.a. Quercus marilandica). The tree is indigenous to the area of the United States that extends from Maryland to Florida along the Atlantic coast to east Texas and eastern Oklahoma.