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 imbricaria
FAMILY
Fagaceae
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Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
You may also want to check Trees, Shrubs, and Woody Vines of North Carolina
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 imbricaria
FAMILY
Fagaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America
Quercus imbricaria
SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 055-03-027:
Quercus imbricaria FAMILY Fagaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Quercus imbricaria
COMMON NAME:
Shingle Oak
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Manual of the Trees of North America (Exclusive of Mexico) (Sargent, 1905) mtna_i_299
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_quim_001_lvd
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / USDA Wetland flora: Field office illustrated guide pnd_quim_006_lvd
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_quercus_imbricaria_2
January
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_quercus_imbricaria_3
January
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Patrick D. McMillan pdmqimbricaria_oclr1
May
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Patrick D. McMillan pdmqimbricaria_oclr4
May
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Jean Askew jas_071823_8619
July Swain County NC
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Jean Askew jas_071823_8619b
July Swain County NC
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JK Marlow s090724_08384
July Jackson County NC
Western Carolina University
Leaves unlobed, with a densely pubescent underside, per Woody Plants of the Southeastern US: A Winter Guide (Lance, 2004).
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JK Marlow jkm090808_035
August Floyd County GA
Berry College
Acorn cup covering 1/3-1/2 of nut [those pictured are not mature], per Woody Plants of the Southeastern US: A Winter Guide (Lance, 2004).
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JK Marlow jkm090808_041
August Floyd County GA
Berry College
Bark gray to blackish, roughly ridged and furrowed, per Woody Plants of the Southeastern US: A Winter Guide (Lance, 2004).
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_quercus_imbricaria_1
September
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_quercus_imbricaria_4
September
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Quercus imbricaria
FAMILY
Fagaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Quercus imbricaria
FAMILY
Fagaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America
Quercus imbricaria
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 055-03-027:
Quercus imbricaria
FAMILY
Fagaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Quercus imbricaria
1187
Tree
Perennial
Monoecious
Habitat: Rich soils of upper floodplains of rivers and creeks, often at the base of the slope into the upland, also on lower slopes, upland depression swamps, and in drier forests over diabase, limestone, or other calcareous or mafic claypan soils, rarely extending to 5100 feet elevation, per Weakley's Flora
Native to North Carolina & Georgia
Uncommon in NC Mountains (rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)
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
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:
Fall
Acorn
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Gardening with the Native Plants of Tennessee (Hunter, 2002) p311
- Identifying Trees: An All-Season Guide to Eastern North America (Williams, 2007) p288
- Landscaping with Native Trees (Sternberg & Wilson, 1995) p208
- Native Alternatives to Invasive Plants p046
- Field Guide to Native Oak Species of Eastern North America (Stein, Binion, & Acciavatti, 2003) p040
- Native Trees of the Southeast, An Identification Guide (Kirkman, Brown, & Leopold, 2007) p173
- Field Guide to the Rare Plants of Georgia (Chafin, 2007) p293
- Trees of the Southeastern United States (Duncan & Duncan, 1988) p250
- Woody Plants of the Blue Ridge (Lance) p24
- Woody Plants of the Southeastern US: A Winter Guide (Lance, 2004) p270
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