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  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Beeches, Oaks, Walnuts, and Allies
  6. Beech Family
  7. Oaks
  8. Southern Live Oaks
  9. Sand Live Oak

species 8,358 observations

Sand Live Oak

Quercus geminata

Status
native
Keystone
566 caterpillar species raised on Quercus trees
Traits
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Field notes

Supports All

440 native animals
supported in the US
  • Caterpillars Moths and butterflies raised on it Juvenal's Duskywing, Forest Tent Caterpillar Moth, Eastern Tent Caterpillar Moth, Carpenterworm Moth 264
  • Hosted animals Gall makers, leaf miners and other animals living on or in it Leafy Oak Gall Wasp, Disholcaspis quercusvirens, Southern Live Oak Stem Gall Wasp, Neuroterus quercusminutissimus 66
  • Plant eaters Animals that feed on it Eastern Cottontail, Common Raccoon, Red Fox, Virginia Opossum 81
  • Flower visitors Pollinators and other flower visitors Rabidosa hentzi, Cyrtolobus funkhouseri, Ophiderma flavicephala, Cyrtolobus togatus 29

Range

United States

Greener is more native, amber more introduced; paler is less certain. How this was decided

Key traits

Layer
Trees
Light
Full sun Part shade
Moisture
Dry Well drained Wet
Soil
Sand Loam
Soil pH
Acid Neutral
Resists
Salt Storm damage Wind
Habit
Irregular Open Rounded
Plant type
Shrub Tree

From NC State Extension and USDA PLANTS.

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