Quercus vacciniifolia Kellogg  

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National Distribution:
United States

Origin: Unknown/Undetermined

Regularity: Regularly occurring

Currently: Unknown/Undetermined

Confidence: Confident

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Growth Form (according to Raunkiær Life-form classification):

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Phanerophyte

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Taxonomy:

The currently accepted scientific name of huckleberry oak is Quercus
vaccinifolia Kell. [15,27]. There are no recognized subspecies,
varieties, or forms.

Huckleberry oak hybridizes with canyon live oak (Q. chrysolepis)
[1,17,27].

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Occurrence in North America:

     CA  NV  OR

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Life Form:

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Shrub

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Common Names:

huckleberry oak

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Distribution:

Huckleberry oak is distributed along the Sierra Nevada and the Cascade
Range from Fresno County, California north to Siskiyou County,
California, and in the North Coast and Siskiyou ranges from Mendocino
County, California north to Josephine County, Oregon [1,10,15,16].  It
also occurs in extreme west-central Nevada [24].

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Plant Response to Fire:

The postfire recovery rate of huckleberry oak is undocumented.

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Regional Distribution in the Western United States:

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This species can be found in the following regions of the western United States (according to the Bureau of Land Management classification of Physiographic Regions of the western United States):

    1  Northern Pacific Border
    2  Cascade Mountains
    3  Southern Pacific Border

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Successional Status:

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Facultative Seral Species

Huckleberry oak is an edaphic or fire-climax species on some sites
[11,16].  In the absence of fire and under favorable soil conditions,
huckleberry oak is seral to coniferous species [1,3].

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