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Quercus stellata, the post oak or iron oak, is a North American species of oak in the white oak section. It is a slow-growing oak that lives in dry areas on the edges of fields, tops of ridges, and also grows in poor soils, and is resistant to rot, fire , and drought .
The Big Thicket [3] is the name given to a somewhat imprecise region of a heavily forested area of Southeast Texas in the United States. This area represents a portion of the mixed pine-hardwood forests or "Piney Woods" of the Southeast US. [4]
Quercus: oaks; Quercus alba: white oak Fagaceae (beech family) Yes IUCN (LC) 82 Quercus bicolor: swamp white oak Fagaceae (beech family) Yes 84 Quercus buckleyi: Texas red oak Fagaceae (beech family) Yes Yes Yes Yes IUCN (LC) 8513 Quercus coccinea: scarlet oak Fagaceae (beech family) Yes IUCN (LC) 86 Quercus emoryi: emory oak Fagaceae (beech ...
Sand post oak (Quercus stellata margarettae) 55.2 181 Gilchrist County, Florida [92] Turkey oak (Quercus cerris) 53.9 177 Devon, England. [86] Moreton Bay fig (Ficus macrophylla) 53.6 176 Moreton Bay Fig Tree: Chapala Street in Santa Barbara, California. [93] Scarlet Oak (Quercus coccinea) 53.6 176 Middlesboro, Kentucky [94] Coast live oak ...
The genus Quercus contains about 500 known species, plus about 180 hybrids between them. [1] The genus, as is the case with many large genera, is divided into subgenera and sections. Traditionally, the genus Quercus was divided into the two subgenera Cyclobalanopsis, the ring-cupped oaks, and Quercus, which included
Native ash species, including white ash (pictured), have been declining rapidly this century due to predation by the emerald ash borer. [1]Silvics of North America (1991), [2] [3] a forest inventory compiled and published by the United States Forest Service, includes many hardwood trees.
The trail was named after a quercus stellata (post oak), a tree commonly seen throughout the park that increases in abundance further east. There is a 70 ft (21 m) change in elevation and a 5.7% grade.
[4] [8] [9] The mountains have been called a northern extension of the Hill Country, [4] and indeed they are both dissected plateaus featuring karst topography with similar vegetation, including post oak (Quercus stellata), blueberry juniper (Juniperus ashei), and mesquite.