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  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Beeches, Oaks, Walnuts, and Allies
  6. Beech Family
  7. Oaks
  8. Quercus dumosa
  9. Nuttall's Scrub Oak

species 2,959 observations

Nuttall's Scrub Oak

Quercus dumosa

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

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156 native animals
supported in the US
  • Caterpillars Moths and butterflies raised on it Gold-hunter's Hairstreak, Orange Tortrix Moth, Acrobasis comptella, Coleophora querciella 77
  • Hosted animals Gall makers, leaf miners and other animals living on or in it California Gall Wasp, Beaked Twig Gall Wasp, Jumping Gall Wasp, Crystalline Gall Wasp 40
  • Plant eaters Animals that feed on it Telamonanthe rileyi, California Scrub-Jay, Western Gray Squirrel, Sandhill Crane 29
  • Flower visitors Pollinators and other flower visitors Titus's Sweat Bee, California Sister, Mourning Cloak, Pileated Woodpecker 7
  • Sheltered animals Animals that nest or roost in it Oak Gall Chalcid, Torymus tubicola, Aprostocetus 3

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
Water use
Low
Plant type
Perennial Shrub Tree

From USDA PLANTS and the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center.

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