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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Beeches, Oaks, Walnuts, and Allies
  6. Beech Family
  7. Oaks
  8. Quercus berberidifolia
  9. Leather Oak

species 5,410 observations

Leather Oak

Quercus durata

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

Field notes

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163 native animals
supported in the US
  • Caterpillars Moths and butterflies raised on it Sleepy Duskywing, Litocala Moth, Stenomid Oak Leaf Tier, Forest Tent Caterpillar Moth 84
  • Hosted animals Gall makers, leaf miners and other animals living on or in it Beaked Twig Gall Wasp, Clasping Twig Gall Wasp, Crystalline Gall Wasp, Burnettweldia washingtonensis 41
  • Plant eaters Animals that feed on it Crown Whitefly, California Scrub-Jay, Ruffed Grouse, Western Gray Squirrel 31
  • Flower visitors Pollinators and other flower visitors Habropoda depressa, California Sister, Mourning Cloak, Pileated Woodpecker 7

Children

  • Leather Oak
  • San Gabriel Oak

Range

United States

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

Key traits

Layer
Trees
Plant type
Perennial Shrub Tree

From USDA PLANTS.

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