Why you should know your plants - Answers1. Provide food and cover
2. Attract Wildlife
3. Dictate Management
4. Certain plants exclude other plants and wildlife
Woody - Answersplants that produce wood as their structural tissue (trees shrubs vines)
Brambles - Answersusually refers to blackberries
Grass - Answersmonocots in the poaceae family
Forb - Answersherbaceous flowering plant that is not a grass
Herbaceous - Answersincludes both grasses and forbs
Loblolly Pine (Pinus taeda) - Answers1. needles 4-7 inches
2. Most Common Southern Yellow Pine
3. canopy closure at 8-10 years
4. First thin at 12-15 years
5. Final harvest (clearcut) 25-35 years
Longleaf Pine (Pinus palustris) - Answers1. needles 8-18 inches in fascicles of 3 sometimes 4
2. More common in lower coastal plain
3. Fire tolerant 2-3 years
4. First thin 20-30
5. Final harvest 50-60 years
White Oaks (Quercus spp) - Answers1. Most common is white oak
2. Acorn Production 30-40 years old
3. Tips of white oak leaves rounded
4. 1/3 of trees considered good producers
5. Highly preferred
,6. Acorn April to Fall (in one year)
Red Oak (Quercus spp) - Answers1. Most common are northern and southern red oaks
2. Tips of red oak leaves are pointed
3. 60% are considered good producers
4. Moderately preferred
5. 2 year cycle producer of Acorn
Water Oak (Quercus Nigra) - Answers1. Common in piedmont and coastal plain
2. Reliable producer
3. Smaller acorn allows for more wildlife to access it
4. Low fire tolerance
5. Moderately preferred
Sawtooth Oak (Quercus acutissima) - Answers1. introduced and planted to attract deer mainly
2. produces at 7-8 years
3. too large for turkeys to consume
4. drop for 2 weeks in early fall
5. Reliable producers and produce at young age
Common Persimmon (Diospyros virginiana) - Answers1. Diecious (female and male plants)
2. Males do not produce
3. Drop fruit during late summer/early fall
4. Highly attractive to wildlife
Sweetgum (Liquidambar styraciflua) - Answers1. Extremely common throughout southeast
2. little wildlife use
3. Spike balls that fall
4. Invasive if not managed
Most common native warm season grasses - AnswersBroomsedge bluestem
, Little bluestem
Big bluestem
Indiangrass
Switchgrass
Native warm season grasses - Answers1. Important for cover not food
2. Bunch grasses
3. Very important for quail nesting
4. Dont want too much
Paspalum - Answers1. Bahiagrass, Dallisgrass, Vaseygrass
2. Paired seeds in rows along stalks
3. Exotic warm season grass
4. Undesirable
Bermuda Grass - Answers1. All seed stalks originate form same point at least 3
2. Exotic warm season grass
3. Undesirable
Johnsongrass - Answers1. Large seed head with many stalks in all directions
2. Blood spots on leaves
3. Exotic warm season grass
4. Undesirable
5. Cannot disk into soil (like a worm cut ends live and come back)
Greenbriar - Answers1. common greenbriar, cat greenbriar, sawbrier
2. Evergreen, green stems
3. Moderate-high preference for deer
Lespedezas - Answers1. mix of native and exotic species
2. trifoliate, single seeds, no pods