Quercus dumosa
Quercus dumosa · also Nuttall's scrub oak, Coastal sage scrub oak, Scrub oak
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Quercus dumosa is a short, scraggly, and rounded evergreen shrub, often growing with multiple trunks. Native to coastal chaparral and sage scrub on sandy soils in California and Baja California, it is highly drought tolerant but endangered due to habitat loss from urban development.
Where it grows
Trees in each city's inventory, with the share of that city's named trees this species accounts for.
- 130.00%35 yr7.5 in
Traits
- Form
- Multi-trunk
- Foliage
- Evergreen
- Mature height
- 5–15 ft
- Canopy spread
- 6–10 ft
- Growth rate
- Moderate
- Soil
- Sandy
- Water needs
- Low
- Drought tolerance
- High
- Wildlife value
- High
- Tolerates
- coastal, salt
- Blooms
- Mar, Apr, May
Trunk diameters across every city: median 7.5 in, mean 5.7 in, 90th percentile 7.5 in. Measured at breast height, as published by each inventory.
Native range
Terrestrial ecoregions where this species is native. Trees in the dataset mostly stand well outside it.
Mediterranean Forests, Woodlands & Scrub
- California coastal sage and chaparral
Deserts & Xeric Shrublands
- Baja California desert
Other Quercus in the catalogue
74 of the top 2,000 species are in this genus.
