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Quercus virginiana Mill.
Virginia live oak

Copyright by: George D. Gann

Family: Fagaceae

Group: Dicot

Substrate: Terrestrial

Habit: Tree

Perennation: Perennial

Native Range: Southeastern United States.

Map of select IRC data for peninsular Florida

IRC SOUTH FLORIDA Status: Secure

SOUTH FLORIDA Occurrence: Present

SOUTH FLORIDA Native Status: Native

SOUTH FLORIDA Cultivated Status: Cultivated

Comments: Visit our Natives For Your Neighborhood website for more information and images. For a digitized image of Elbert Little's Florida range map, visit the Exploring Florida website. See a 2019 post on the Treasure Coast Natives blog on oaks and their acorns.

Other data on Quercus virginiana available from :

	Occurrence	Native Status
Quercus virginiana has been found in the following 178 conservation areas :
A.D. Doug Barnes Park	Present	Native
Alice C. Wainwright Park	Present	Native
Allapattah Flats Wildlife Management Area	Present	Native
Andrew Dodge Memorial Pineland	Present	Native
Arch Creek Addition	Present	Native
Arch Creek Park	Present	Native
Atlantic Dunes Park	Present	Native
Babcock Ranch Preserve	Present	Native
Barley Barber Swamp	Present	Native
Big and Little George Hammocks	Present	Native
Big Cypress National Preserve	Present	Native
Bill Baggs Cape Florida State Park	Present	Native, Cultivated Only
Bill Sadowski Park	Present	Native
Black Creek Forest	Present	Native
Blazing Star Preserve	Present	Native
Blowing Rocks Preserve	Present	Native
Bocilla Preserve	Present	Native
Bonair Beach Parcel, Martin County	Present	Native
Boystown Pineland	Present	Native
Caloosahatchee Creeks Preserve	Present	Native
Caloosahatchee Regional Park	Present	Native
Camp Owaissa Bauer	Present	Native
Camp Owaissa Bauer Addition	Present	Native
Castellow Hammock parcel 28	Present	Native
Castellow Hammock parcel 31	Present	Native
Castellow Hammock parcel 33	Present	Native
Castellow Hammock Park	Present	Native
Cayo Costa State Park	Present	Native
Chernoff Hammock	Present	Native
Collier-Seminole State Park	Present	Native
Coral Pines Park	Present	Native
Coral Reef Park	Present	Native
Corkscrew Regional Ecosystem Watershed (CREW)	Present	Native
Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary	Present	Native
County Line Scrub, Miami-Dade County	Present	Native
Crandon Park	Present	Native
Cypress Knee Slough Preserve	Present	Native
Dagny Johnson Key Largo Hammocks Botanical State Park	Present	Native
Danforth Park	Recorded as Present in Error
Deering Estate at Cutler	Present	Native
Delnor-Wiggins Pass State Park	Present	Native
Delray Beach, Lake Ida parcel	Present	Native
Delray Oaks Natural Area	Present	Native
Dolphin Center and Dolphin Center Addition	Present	Native
Doris Davis Forman Wilderness Preserve Natural Area	Present	Native
Dr. Von D. Mizell-Eula Johnson State Park	Possibly Extirpated	Possibly Extirpated
Dupuis Reserve	Present	Native
Eachus Pineland	Present	Native
Enchanted Forest Park	Present	Native
Estero Bay Preserve State Park	Present	Native
Everglades and Francis S. Taylor Wildlife Management Area	Present	Native
Everglades National Park	Present	Native
Fakahatchee Strand Preserve State Park	Present	Native
Fern Forest Nature Center	Present	Native
Fisheating Creek Wildlife Management Area	Present	Native
Florida Atlantic University Ecological Site	Present	Native
Florida City Pineland	Present	Native
Florida Panther National Wildlife Refuge	Present	Native
Fred C. Babcock-Cecil M. Webb Wildlife Management Area	Present	Native
Frenchman's Forest Natural Area	Present	Native
Frog Pond/L-31 N Transition Lands	Present	Native
Fuchs Hammock Preserve	Present	Native
George N. Avery Pineland	Present	Native
Girl Scouts South Miami Little House	Present	Native
Gold Coast Railroad Museum	Present	Native
Goulds Pineland	Present	Native
Grassy Waters Preserve	Present	Native
Greynolds Park	Present	Native
Halpatiokee Regional Park	Present	Native
Harden Hammock	Present	Native
Hattie Bauer Hammock	Present	Native
Hickey Creek Mitigation Park Wildlife and Environmental Area	Present	Native
Highland Oaks Park	Present	Native
Hillsboro Pineland Natural Area	Present	Native
Hobe Sound National Wildlife Refuge	Present	Native
Holiday Hammock	Present	Native
Hugh Taylor Birch State Park	Present	Native
Ingram Pineland	Present	Native
Ives Estate Park	Present	Native
J.N. Ding Darling National Wildlife Refuge	Present	Native
J.W. Corbett Wildlife Management Area	Present	Native
John D. MacArthur Beach State Park	Present	Native
John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park	Recorded as Present in Error
Jonathan Dickinson State Park	Present	Native
Juno Dunes Natural Area	Present	Native
Jupiter Inlet Lighthouse Outstanding Natural Area	Present	Native
Jupiter Ridge Natural Area	Present	Native
Kendall Indian Hammocks Park	Present	Native
Kendalwood	Present	Native
Kitchen Key	Present	Native
Koreshan State Historic Site	Present	Native
LaBelle Nature Park	Present	Native
Lake Okeechobee Marshes	Present	Native
Larry and Penny Thompson Park	Present	Native
Long Key Natural Area & Nature Center	Present	Native
Loveland Hammock	Present	Native
Loxahatchee River Natural Area	Present	Native
Loxahatchee Slough Natural Area	Present	Native
Lucille Hammock	Present	Native
Ludlam Pineland	Present	Native
Luis Martinez United States Army Reserve Station, Richmond Pine Rocklands	Present	Native
Matanzas Pass Preserve	Present	Native
Matheson Hammock Park	Present	Native
Medlock Pineland	Present	Native
Meissner Hammock	Present	Native
Milton E. Thompson Park	Present	Native
Miramar Pineland	Present	Native
Moreno Pine Rockland	Present	Native
Muscara	Present	Native
Navy Wells Pineland 23	Present	Native
Navy Wells Pineland 39		Native
Navy Wells Pineland Preserve	Present	Native
Ned Glenn Nature Preserve	Present	Native
Nicodemus Slough	Present	Native
Nixon Smiley Pineland Addition	Present	Native
Nixon Smiley Pineland Preserve	Present	Native
Northrop Pineland	Present	Native
Oak Grove Park	Present	Native
Okaloacoochee Slough State Forest, Okaloacoochee Slough Wildlife Management Area	Present	Native
Okaloacoochee Slough Wildlife Management Area - FWC, Okaloacoochee Slough Wildlife Management Area	Present	Native
Okeeheelee Park	Present	Native
Oleta River State Park	Present	Native
Palm Drive Pineland	Present	Native
Pal-Mar Natural Area	Present	Native
Peck Lake Park	Present	Native
Phipps Ocean Park	Present	Native, Cultivated Only
Picayune Strand State Forest	Present	Native
Pine Island National Wildlife Refuge	Present	Native
Pine Island Ridge Natural Area	Present	Native
Pine Jog Environmental Sciences Center	Present	Native
Pine Ridge Sanctuary	Present	Native
Pine Shore Preserve	Present	Native
Pond Apple Slough Natural Area	Present	Native
Porter-Russell Pineland	Present	Native
Prairie Pines Preserve	Present	Native
Quail Roost Pineland	Present	Native
R. Hardy Matheson Preserve	Present	Native
Red Reef Park, including Gumbo Limbo Nature Center	Present	Native
Rock Pit 39	Present	Native
Rockdale Pineland	Present	Native
Rocky Point Hammock	Present	Native
Rolling Oaks Park	Present	Native
Ron Ehmann Park	Present	Native
Rookery Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve	Present	Native
Rosemary Scrub Natural Area	Present	Native
Royal Palm Beach Pines Natural Area	Present	Native
San Carlos Bay - Bunche Beach Preserve	Present	Native
Savannas Preserve State Park	Present	Native
Seabranch Preserve State Park	Present	Native
Secret Woods Nature Center	Present	Native
Seminole Wayside Park	Present	Native
Serenoa Glade Preserve	Present	Native
Sewell Park	Present	Native
Silver Palm Groves	Present	Native
Silver Palm Hammock	Present	Native
Simpson Park	Present	Native
Six Mile Cypress Slough Preserve	Present	Native
SOCSOUTH	Present	Native
Spanish River Park	Present	Native
St. Lucie Inlet Preserve State Park	Present	Native
Stuart Beach Park	Present	Native
Sunny Palms Pineland	Present	Native
The Barnacle State Historic Park	Present	Native
Tradewinds Park & Stables	Present	Native
Trail Glades Range	Present	Native
Tree Tops Park	Present	Native
Trinity Pineland	Present	Native
Tropical Park	Present	Native
Twin Rivers	Present	Native
Vizcaya Museum and Gardens	Present	Native
Warbler Wetland Natural Area	Present	Native
West Biscayne Pineland	Present	Native
Whispering Pines Hammock Preserve	Present	Native
Wild Turkey Strand Preserve	Present	Native
Woodmont Natural Area	Present	Native
Yamato Scrub Natural Area	Present	Native
Yellow Fever Creek Preserve	Present	Native
Zoo Miami	Present	Native

	Occurrence	Native Status
Quercus virginiana has been found in the following 10 counties :
Broward County		Native
Charlotte County		Native
Collier County		Native
Hendry County
Lee County		Native
Martin County		Native
Miami-Dade County		Native
Monroe County (Keys)		Native
Monroe County (Mainland)		Native
Palm Beach County		Native