Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Rosids: Fabids: Fagales
Genus: Quercus
Subgenus: Quercus
Section: Lobatae (red oaks)
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Quercus ilicifolia
FAMILY
Fagaceae
Go to FSUS key
Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Read Edible Wild Plants: Oak from Lytton Musselman and the Southern Appalachian Botanical Society.
Learn more from the Vascular Plants of North Carolina website.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Quercus ilicifolia
FAMILY
Fagaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America
Quercus ilicifolia
SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 055-03-023:
Quercus ilicifolia FAMILY Fagaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Quercus ilicifolia
COMMON NAME:
Bear Oak, Scrub Oak
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Manual of the Trees of North America (Exclusive of Mexico) (Sargent, 1905) mtna_i_286
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_quil_001_lvd
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Ron Lance rwl_qilicifolia
August
In cultivation
Leaves grayish and hairy below; lobes rather shallow, per Woody Plants of the Blue Ridge (Lance).
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Ron Lance rwl_qilicifolia2
August
In cultivation
Acorn cup covering 1/4 to almost 1/2 of nut, per Woody Plants of the Southeastern US: A Winter Guide (Lance, 2004).
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JK Marlow jkm090924_067
September Hancock County ME
Acadia National Park: Wild Gardens of Acadia
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Ron Lance rwl_20230920_142024_2
September Oconee County SC
In cultivation
The hilums of the pictured acorns are a peachy-pinkish-orange with a purple halo (!)...
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Quercus ilicifolia
FAMILY
Fagaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Quercus ilicifolia
FAMILY
Fagaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America
Quercus ilicifolia
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 055-03-023:
Quercus ilicifolia
FAMILY
Fagaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Quercus ilicifolia
1186
Shrub; Tree
Perennial
Monoecious
Habitat: Xeric soils in ridges in the Mountains and monadnocks in the upper Piedmont, pine-oak / heath woodlands, shale barrens, other dry and acidic sites, per Weakley's Flora
Native to North Carolina
Rare in NC
CLICK HERE to see a map, notes, and images from Weakley's Flora of the Southeastern US.
LEAVES:
Deciduous
Simple
Alternate, 5-ranked
FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
Staminate calyx 2-8 lobed, pistillate calyx 6-lobed
Petals absent
3-12 stamens in staminate flowers
Unisexual
Staminate flowers in clustered drooping catkins
FRUIT:
Summer
Acorn
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- How to Recognize Shrubs (Grimm, 1966) p096
- Identifying Trees: An All-Season Guide to Eastern North America (Williams, 2007) p272
- Landscaping with Native Trees (Sternberg & Wilson, 1995) p220
- Field Guide to Native Oak Species of Eastern North America (Stein, Binion, & Acciavatti, 2003) p038
- Native Trees of the Southeast, An Identification Guide (Kirkman, Brown, & Leopold, 2007) p173
- Trees of the Southeastern United States (Duncan & Duncan, 1988) p282
- Woody Plants of the Blue Ridge (Lance) p23
- Woody Plants of the Southeastern US: A Winter Guide (Lance, 2004) p270
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