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White-Tailed Deer:
Their Foods & Management in the Cross Timbers
Table of Contents & Preface
Introduction
Habitat requirements
General concepts
Food requirements
Methods
used to gather data
Overall
use of forage classes
Seasonal
use of forages
Specific
seasonal deer diets
Spring
Summer
Fall
Winter
Summary
Cover requirements
Water requirements
Space requirements
Habitat management
General concepts
Food management
Cover management
Water management
Space management
Population health/evaluation
Introduction & aging deer
Body size & antler characteristics
Fat deposits
Reproductive success
Population management
Introduction
Population inventory
Harvest
records
Deer
surveys
Population regulation
Potential
mng't goals
Appendix A:
Plants of the NFWU
Appendix B:
Deer diets on the NFWU
Appendix C:
Pictures and descriptions of
important deer food plants in the
Cross Timbers region
Glossary for Appendix C
Common name: winged sumac, dwarf sumac, flameleaf sumac, wing-rib sumac, shining sumac
Scientific names: Rhus copallina
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Seasons of significant use: spring, summer, fall, winter (for Rhus spp.- Toxicodendron radicans complex)
Characteristics: Native, perennial shrub to 10.0 feet, rarely a small tree to 30.0 feet. Older branches with numerous conspicuous corky spots called lenticels; leaves deciduous, alternate, pinnately compound, the rachis winged between leaflets; leaflets usually 7-21 pairs, sessile or nearly so, margins usually entire; plant is polygamous; inflorescence is a large dense panicle, terminal on branches; flower greenish-white; fruit is a 1-seeded drupe, in dense panicles, subglobose but somewhat flattened, with red glandular hairs, maturing August-September. Flowers June-July.
Plant community type: Primarily in open uplands and along wooded edges in uplands, but does occur in bottomland situations. Often found along roadsides, ditches, etc. Often forming thickets from root sprouts.
More Plant Photos and Descriptions:
Appendix C: Plants by Common Name
Appendix C: Plants by Scientific Name
Appendix C: Plants Listed by Family