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Oak Forest
Oak forest habitat in Manitoba is made up of a canopy of bur
oak trees with an understorey of shrubs such as hazel, hawthorn, poison ivy,
snowberry and wild rose. In Manitoba, oak forest dominates on very dry sites,
including gravel ridges or the upper terrace within a riverbottom forest where
flooding rarely occurs. Thick stands of pure oak are not common in Manitoba.
More often, bur oak trees are found mixed in with aspen trees, and most of the
aspen forest habitat sites inventoried in Winnipeg also contain some oak trees.
In the tall-grass prairie region of southern Manitoba, small stands of oak can
be found mixed with openings of native prairie, creating a blend of plant communities sometimes referred to as "oak savannah".
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