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 laevis
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 laevis
FAMILY
Fagaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America
Quercus laevis
SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 055-03-019:
Quercus laevis FAMILY Fagaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Quercus laevis
COMMON NAME:
Turkey Oak
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Manual of the Trees of North America (Exclusive of Mexico) (Sargent, 1905) mtna_i_285
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Keith Bradley kab_quercus_laevis_77019
May Martin County FL
Jonathan Dickinson State Park
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JK Marlow jkm0210c_07
October Aiken County SC
Nurseries Caroliniana
3-7 lobes usually with 1-3 bristle-tipped teeth, deep sinuses, raised veins, per Field Guide to Native Oak Species of Eastern North America (Stein, Binion, & Acciavatti, 2003).
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JK Marlow jkm091017_052
October Sumter County SC
Manchester State Forest
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JK Marlow jkm161001_036
September Chesterfield County SC
Carolina Sandhills National Wildlife Refuge
Leaf surfaces are nearly always perpendicular to the ground, per Trees of the Southeastern United States (Duncan & Duncan, 1988).
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Keith Bradley kab_quercus_laevis_7993
October SC
Acorn cup thick, w a wide shoulder and marginal scales rolled into interior, per Woody Plants of the Southeastern US: A Winter Guide (Lance, 2004).
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_quercus_laevis
October
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Quercus laevis
FAMILY
Fagaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Quercus laevis
FAMILY
Fagaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America
Quercus laevis
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 055-03-019:
Quercus laevis
FAMILY
Fagaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Quercus laevis
1188
Tree
Perennial
Monoecious
Habitat: Longleaf pine sandhills, primarily in very xeric soils of deep sandy deposits (Carolina bay rims, old beach dunes, early Cenozoic deposits of the Sandhills Province), or inland from the Coastal Plain on dry ridges and slopes over quartzite or other acidic rock types, per Weakley's Flora
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common in Coastal Plain (rare in Piedmont)
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:
Summer/Fall
Acorn
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Gardening with Native Plants of the South (Wasowski & Wasowski, 1994, 2020) p070
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC, 1st ed. (Porcher & Rayner, 2001) p231
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC, 2nd ed. (McMillan, Porcher, Rayner, & White; 2022) p286
- Identifying Trees: An All-Season Guide to Eastern North America (Williams, 2007) p296
- Landscaping with Native Trees (Sternberg & Wilson, 1995) p220
- Field Guide to Native Oak Species of Eastern North America (Stein, Binion, & Acciavatti, 2003) p048
- Native Trees of the Southeast, An Identification Guide (Kirkman, Brown, & Leopold, 2007) p175
- Trees of the Southeastern United States (Duncan & Duncan, 1988) p285
- Wildflowers of the Carolina Lowcountry (Porcher, 1995) p162
- Woody Plants of the Southeastern US: A Winter Guide (Lance, 2004) p272
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