WILD 3600 Exam 1 Questions – 100%
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Why you should know your plants ANSW ✔✔ 1. Provide food and cover
2. Attract Wildlife
3. Dictate Management
4. Certain plants exclude other plants and wildlife
Woody ANSW ✔✔ plants that produce wood as their structural tissue (trees
shrubs vines)
Brambles ANSW ✔✔ usually refers to blackberries
Grass ANSW ✔✔ monocots in the poaceae family
Forb ANSW ✔✔ herbaceous flowering plant that is not a grass
Herbaceous ANSW ✔✔ includes both grasses and forbs
Loblolly Pine (Pinus taeda) ANSW ✔✔ 1. 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) ANSW ✔✔ 1. 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) ANSW ✔✔ 1. 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) ANSW ✔✔ 1. 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) ANSW ✔✔ 1. 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) ANSW ✔✔ 1. 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) ANSW ✔✔ 1. 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) ANSW ✔✔ 1. Extremely common
throughout southeast
2. little wildlife use
3. Spike balls that fall
4. Invasive if not managed
Most common native warm season grasses ANSW ✔✔ Broomsedge bluestem
Little bluestem
Big bluestem
Indiangrass
Switchgrass
Native warm season grasses ANSW ✔✔ 1. Important for cover not food
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Why you should know your plants ANSW ✔✔ 1. Provide food and cover
2. Attract Wildlife
3. Dictate Management
4. Certain plants exclude other plants and wildlife
Woody ANSW ✔✔ plants that produce wood as their structural tissue (trees
shrubs vines)
Brambles ANSW ✔✔ usually refers to blackberries
Grass ANSW ✔✔ monocots in the poaceae family
Forb ANSW ✔✔ herbaceous flowering plant that is not a grass
Herbaceous ANSW ✔✔ includes both grasses and forbs
Loblolly Pine (Pinus taeda) ANSW ✔✔ 1. 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) ANSW ✔✔ 1. 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) ANSW ✔✔ 1. 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) ANSW ✔✔ 1. 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) ANSW ✔✔ 1. 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) ANSW ✔✔ 1. 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) ANSW ✔✔ 1. 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) ANSW ✔✔ 1. Extremely common
throughout southeast
2. little wildlife use
3. Spike balls that fall
4. Invasive if not managed
Most common native warm season grasses ANSW ✔✔ Broomsedge bluestem
Little bluestem
Big bluestem
Indiangrass
Switchgrass
Native warm season grasses ANSW ✔✔ 1. Important for cover not food
