Grows in dry, sandy, or shaly soils, of the Coastal Plain and Piedmont; frequent on serpentine barrens (Brown and Brown, 1972).
Distributed from Iowa east to New Jersey and Long Island, New York, south to Florida, west to Texas, and north to Nebraska. Blackjack Oak is considered a pioneer species (Stein, et al., 2003).
Blackjack Oak belongs to the Red Oak group. A small or medium-sized tree, slow-growing and short-lived. Leaves have 3 to 5 broad lobes above the middle and are narrow at base.
Blackjack Oak can be easily observed along the trails at Soldier's Delight in Baltimore County.
There are 143 records in the project database.
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