Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Rosids: Fabids: Fagales
Genus: Quercus
Subgenus: Quercus
Section: Virentes (live oaks)
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Quercus minima
FAMILY
Fagaceae
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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 minima
FAMILY
Fagaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America
Quercus minima
SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Quercus minima
COMMON NAME:
Dwarf Live Oak
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Ron Lance rwl_minima_lvs
September
Leaves obovate or oblanceolate, with a very short petiole, base cuneate, per Field Guide to Native Oak Species of Eastern North America (Stein, Binion, & Acciavatti, 2003).
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Ron Lance rwl_minima_lvs2
September
Acorn cup goblet-shaped with grayish scales, enclosing up to 1/2 of nut, per Field Guide to Native Oak Species of Eastern North America (Stein, Binion, & Acciavatti, 2003).
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Quercus minima
FAMILY
Fagaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Quercus minima
FAMILY
Fagaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America
Quercus minima
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Quercus minima
2181
Shrub
Perennial
Monoecious
Habitat: pine flatwoods, coastal fringe sandhills, pine rocklands, per Weakley's Flora
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common in GA Coastal Plain (uncommon in SC, rare in NC)
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LEAVES:
Evergreen
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!
- How to Recognize Shrubs (Grimm, 1966) p099
- Field Guide to Native Oak Species of Eastern North America (Stein, Binion, & Acciavatti, 2003) p062
- Woody Plants of the Southeastern US: A Winter Guide (Lance, 2004) p274
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