ILLINOIS PLANT INFORMATION NETWORK ILPIN INFORMATION ON Quercus stellata CLASS: DICOTYLEDENAE ORDER: FAGALES FAMILY: FAGACEAE SCIENTIFIC NAME: Quercus stellata AUTHORITY: Wangh. COMMON NAMES: POST OAK SYNONOMY: None PLANTS CODE: QUST NATURAL COMMUNITIES: FOREST UPLAND FOREST XERIC DRY FLATWOODS SOUTHERN LISTED DOMINANT SAVANNA TYPICAL SAVANNA DRY-MESIC BARREN DRY LISTED DOMINANT PRIMARY GLADE SANDSTONE LIMESTONE SHALE BLUFF LISTED DOMINANT SAF FOREST COVER TYPE: CENTRAL Upland oak listed Post oak - blackjack oak Chestnut oak White/Black/Northern Red- Oak White Oak SOUTHERN Oak-Pine listed Shortleaf Pine-oak Bottomland listed Swamp Chestnut Oak - Cherrybark Oak NATURAL DIVISION: Western Forest Prairie Galesburg Carlinville listed Middle Mississippi Border Glaciated Driftless listed Southern Till Plain Effingham Plain Mt. Vernon Hill Country listed Shawnee Hills Greater Shawnee Hills Lesser Shawnee Hills listed Coastal Plain Cretaceous Hills Bottomlands listed COUNTIES: ADAMS ALEXANDER BOND BROWN CALHOUN CASS CHRISTIAN CLARK CLAY CLINTON COLES CRAWFORD CUMBERLAND EDWARDS EFFINGHAM FAYETTE FRANKLIN GALLATIN GREENE HAMILTON HANCOCK HARDIN JACKSON JASPER JEFFERSON JERSEY JOHNSON LAWRENCE MCDONOUGH MACOUPIN MADISON MARION MASON MASSAC MENARD MONROE MONTGOMERY MORGAN MOULTRIE PERRY PIKE POPE PULASKI RANDOLPH RICHLAND ST. CLAIR SALINE SCHUYLER SCOTT SHELBY UNION WABASH WASHINGTON WAYNE WHITE WILLIAMSON GROWTH FORM: Dicot-woody TAXONOMIC CHARACTERISTICS: ROOTS: Primary LEAF ARRANGEMENT: Alternate LEAF TYPE: Simple LEAF MARGIN: Lobed (pinnately) LEAF VENATION: Pinnate LEAF SHAPE: Obovate INFLORESCENCE: Catkin FLOWER STRUCTURE: Incomplete (no petals) FRUIT: Nut DISTINGUISHING CHARACTERISTIC COMMENTS: Pistillate flowers are a few in a cluster; three squarish lobes. GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION: ORIGIN: Native POPULATION DYNAMICS: STATE STATUS: Not listed FEDERAL STATUS: Not listed COMMONNESS: Common ENDEMIC: NOT-ENDEMIC POPULATION STATUS COMMENTS: Species is common to occasional. BIOLOGIC: HABIT: Tree LIFE CYCLE: Perennial REPRODUCTION: Sexual FLOWERING PERIOD: MONTH BEGINNING- 4 MONTH END- 5 TROPHIC STATUS: Autotrophic C02 FIXATION: C3 SEX: Unisexual -monoecious ECODISTRIBUTION COMMENTS: Typically this is a tree of poorer dry, rocky, or sandy soils. ENVIRONMENTAL RELATIONSHIPS: No data entered FUNCTIONAL RELATIONSHIPS: MAJOR DISPERSAL AGENTS: BIRD MAMMAL MAJOR POLLINATION AGENT: Wind HUMAN RELATIONSHIP DATA: ALLERGENIC: Maybe EDIBLE: Yes SHOWY FLOWERS: YES AMOUNT: Low HUMAN FACTOR COMMENTS: Species maybe causes hayfever; fruit is edible. WILDLIFE AND LIVESTOCK INFORMATION: FOOD VALUE: DEER VALUE: - Fruit UPLAND GAME VALUE: - Fruit WATERFOWL VALUE: Unknown SMALL NON-GAME BIRD VALUE: Unknown SMALL MAMMAL VALUE: - Fruit AQUATIC MAMMAL VALUE: Unknown FISH VALUE: Unknown COVER VALUE: DEER: No data WATERFOWL: No data SMALL MAMMAL: Good FISH: No data SMALL BIRD: Good UPLAND GAME: No data AQUATIC MAMMAL: No data LIVESTOCK PALATABILITY DATA: No data entered REVEGETATION PLANTINGS: SHORT-TERM REVEGETATION POTENTIAL: Poor LONG-TERM REVEGETATION POTENTIAL: Good GENERAL COMMENTS: Wood is heavy, hard, strong, and very durable in contact with the soil. REFERENCES: Mohlenbrock, R. H., ed. 1975. Guide to the vascular flora of Illinois. Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale. 494 pp. Jones, G. N. 1963. Flora of Illinois. Third ed. American Midland Naturalist Monograph 7. University of Notre Dame, Indiana. 401 pp. Steyermark, J. A. 1963. Flora of Missouri. Iowa State University Press, Ames. 1725 pp. Gleason, H. A., and A. Cronquist. 1963. Manual of vascular plants of north- eastern United States and adjacent Canada. Van Nostrand Reinhold Co., New York. 810 pp. Eyre, F. H., ed. 1980. Forest cover types of the United States and Canada. Society of American Foresters (SAF), Washington, D.C., 148 pp. Schwegman, J. E., G. D. Fell, M. Hutchison, G. Paulson, W. M. Shepherd, and J. White. 1973. Comprehensive plan for the Illinois Nature Preserves System. Part 2 - The Natural Divisions of Illinois. Illinois Nature Preserves Commission, Springfield. 32 pp., plus map. White, J., and M. H. Madany. 1978. Classification of natural communities in Illinois. Pages 309-405 in J. White, ed., Illinois natural areas inventory technical report. Vol. 1. Survey methods and results. Illinois Natural Areas Inventory, Urbana. Miller, R. B., and L. R. Tehon. 1929. The native and naturalized trees of Illinois. Illinois Natural History Survey Bulletin 18: 1-340. Mohlenbrock, R. H. 1980. Forest trees of Illinois. Third ed. Illinois Department of Conservation, Division of Forestry, Springfield. 331 pp. Downton, W. J. S. 1975. The occurrence of C4 photosynthesis among plants. Photosynthetica 9(1): 96-105. Fernald, M. L., A. C. Kinsey, and R. C. Rollins. 1958. Edible wild plants of eastern North America. Harper and Brothers, New York. 452 pp. Grimm, W. C. 1950. The trees of Pennsylvania. Stackpole and Heck, New York and Harrisburg. 363 pp. END OF DATA FOR SPECIES Quercus stellata ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ILPIN was developed by Louis Iverson*, with data compiled by David Ketzner and Jeanne Karnes Illinois Natural History Survey, 607 E. Peabody Dr., Champaign, IL 61820 *currently employed by USDA Forest Service, 359 Main Rd., Delaware, OH 43015