WILD 3600 EXAM 1 2025 QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS
Why you should know your plants - ANS 1. Provide food and cover
2. Attract Wildlife
3. Dictate Management
4. Certain plants exclude other plants and wildlife
Woody - ANS plants that produce wood as their structural tissue (trees shrubs vines)
Brambles - ANS usually refers to blackberries
Grass - ANS monocots in the poaceae family
Forb - ANS herbaceous flowering plant that is not a grass
Herbaceous - ANS includes both grasses and forbs
Loblolly Pine (Pinus taeda) - ANS 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
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,Longleaf Pine (Pinus palustris) - ANS 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) - ANS 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) - ANS 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) - ANS 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) - ANS 1. introduced and planted to attract deer mainly
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, 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) - ANS 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) - ANS 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 - ANS Broomsedge bluestem
Little bluestem
Big bluestem
Indiangrass
Switchgrass
Native warm season grasses - ANS 1. Important for cover not food
2. Bunch grasses
3. Very important for quail nesting
4. Dont want too much
Paspalum - ANS 1. Bahiagrass, Dallisgrass, Vaseygrass
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AND ANSWERS
Why you should know your plants - ANS 1. Provide food and cover
2. Attract Wildlife
3. Dictate Management
4. Certain plants exclude other plants and wildlife
Woody - ANS plants that produce wood as their structural tissue (trees shrubs vines)
Brambles - ANS usually refers to blackberries
Grass - ANS monocots in the poaceae family
Forb - ANS herbaceous flowering plant that is not a grass
Herbaceous - ANS includes both grasses and forbs
Loblolly Pine (Pinus taeda) - ANS 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
1 @COPYRIGHT THEBRIGHT 2025/2026
,Longleaf Pine (Pinus palustris) - ANS 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) - ANS 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) - ANS 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) - ANS 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) - ANS 1. introduced and planted to attract deer mainly
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, 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) - ANS 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) - ANS 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 - ANS Broomsedge bluestem
Little bluestem
Big bluestem
Indiangrass
Switchgrass
Native warm season grasses - ANS 1. Important for cover not food
2. Bunch grasses
3. Very important for quail nesting
4. Dont want too much
Paspalum - ANS 1. Bahiagrass, Dallisgrass, Vaseygrass
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