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Plant Profile

Oglethorpe's Oak (Quercus oglethorpensis)

Photo Credit: Murphy Westwood

Global Rank: G3 - Vulnerable
Legal Status: N/A
Family: Fagaceae
State: AL, GA, LA, MS, SC
Nature Serve ID: 128740
Lifeform: Tree
Categories of Interest: Oaks
Date Inducted in National Collection:

Description:

deciduous tree

Where is Oglethorpe's Oak (Quercus oglethorpensis) located in the wild?

Habitat:

found mostly in poorly drained, heavy clay soils of seasonally wet Piedmont seepage swamps, often with cherrybark oak; sometimes found in surrounding uplands and on stream terraces, especially with chalk maple

Distribution:

States & Provinces:

Oglethorpe's Oak can be found in Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina

Which CPC Partners conserve Oglethorpe's Oak (Quercus oglethorpensis)?

Chicago Botanic Garden

Not Sponsored

Assigned 06/09/17

The Morton Arboretum

Not Sponsored

Assigned 06/09/17

The Dawes Arboretum

Not Sponsored

Assigned 03/18/19

Polly Hill Arboretum

Not Sponsored

Assigned 03/29/19

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Conservation Actions

Nature Serve Biotics

05/02/2017

140 sites extant in 1985.

01/01/2010

habitat loss due to clearing of forest land for agriculture and conversion of hardwood forest to pine plantation somewhat susceptible to the same blight that devastated the Ameerican chestnut

01/01/2010

recorded from five counties in Georgia