Native to Alabama, Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode I., South Carolina, Tennessee, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia (source: POWO). Flora of the World documents 1 occurrence across 1 country.
Location
United States, North Carolina, Macon
35.093611, -83.520556
Location Remarks
Nantahala National Forest road off old U.S. route 64 (highway 1448), SW of city of Franklin; near Standing Indian on trail to Wasilik Poplar. 1115 m elev.
Collectors
Christopher Davidson, David E. Boufford, Sharon R. Christoph, Tomomi Masaki
Notes
Tree 15 m.
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Fagales
Family
Fagaceae
Genus
Quercus
Specific Epithet
montana
Authorship
Willd.
What is EDGE?
Evolutionary distinctiveness
Lower
ED 1.8
Part of a well-represented branch of the plant tree of life, with many close relatives.
Threat status
IUCN Red List
EDGE score
0.1
Global rank
#275,086 of 335,497
Top 82%
Extinction probability
6%