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 Fall-line Sandhills), 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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