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OAK FAMILY
(FAGACEAE)
 
Bird food:  Acorns eaten by blue jays, bobwhites, brown thrashers, clapper rails, crows, goldfinches, grackles, mallards, sandhill cranes, scrub jays, sparrows, titmice, white-breasted nuthatches, towhees, wild turkeys, wood ducks, woodpeckers, wrens, others
  • Insects found on live oaks:  many warblers
Butterfly larval food:  Banded Hairstreak, Gray Hairstreak, Red-Banded Hairstreak, Red Spotted Purple, Southern Hairstreak, Striped Hairstreak, White M Hairstreak
 
Butterfly nectar food:  King's Hairstreak
 
Wildlife food:  Acorns eaten by bears, beavers, chipmunks, deer, flying squirrels, fox squirrels, foxes, gray squirrels, and raccoons. Wildlife shelter:  good cover and nesting sites, den trees, nesting materials.
 
 
name
 
area
flower
& fruit
 
season
 
other

American beech
  Fagus grandifolia
Nyellowish
nuts
Sp
F
t
White oak
  Quercus alba
Ncatkins
acorns
Sp
FW
t
Turkey oak
  Quercus laevis
NCcatkins
acorns
Sp
FW
t
Laurel oak
  Quercus laurifolia
NCScatkins
acorns
Sp
FW
t
Basket oak
  Quercus michauzii
NCcatkins
acorns
Sp
FW
t
Myrtle oak
  Quercus myrtifolia
NCScatkins
acorns
Sp
FW
t
Water oak
  Quercus nigra
NCScatkins
acorns
Sp
FW
t
Shumard oak
  Quercus shumardii
NCcatkins
acorns
Sp
FW
t
Live oak
  Quercus virginiana
NCScatkins
acorns
Sp
FW
t
Codes: N=north
C=central
S=south
Sp=spring
Su=summer
F=fall
W=winter
a=annual
b=biennial
p=perennial
s=shrub
t=tree
v=vine
i=invasive
 
ta=toxic to animals
th=toxic to humans

 
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