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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 names: smooth sumac, scarlet sumac
Scientific names: Rhus glabra
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Seasons of significant use: spring, summer, fall, winter (for Rhus spp.- Toxiconendron radicans complex)
Characteristics: Native, perennial shrub to 10.0 feet, rarely a small tree to 20.0 feet. Leaves deciduous, alternate, pinnately compound, the rachis not winged between leaflets; leaflets usually 7-31 pairs, sessile or nearly so, margins sharply serrate; plant is polygamous; inflorescence is a large dense panicle, terminal on branches; flowers greenish; fruit is a 1-seeded drupe, in dense panicles, subglobose but somewhat flattened, with short red velvety hairs, maturing August-September. Flowers May-July.
Plant community type: Primarily in open uplands and along the edges of wooded-open areas 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