Quercus illicifolia Wangenh. - Bear Oak


 

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Quercus stellata - (image 1 of 2)

 

Taxonomy

Family: Fagaceae

Habitat

Rocky or sandy soils of upland forests and barrens.

Associates

 

 Distribution

Southern ME to central NY, OH, WV, and NC.

Morphology

Shrub or small deciduous tree to 5 m. Twigs sparsely pubescent or glabrous. Leaves oblong to oblong-obovate, 5-10 cm long and about half as wide, usually with 5 short and broadly triangular bristle-tipped lobes, finely gray tomentulose below, petioles 1-3 cm; acorns ovoid, to 2 cm, the cup turbinate or sacuer-shaped, covering a third to half the nut, scales few and large, closely appressed.

Notes

Flowers mid April to early June

Wetland indicator: NA

Also called scrub oak. Can hybridize with Q. marilandica. Photographed in the pine barrens of NJ.

References

Gleason, Henry A. and A. Cronquist. 1991. Manual of Vascular Plants of Northeastern United States and Adjacent Canada. Second Ed.

The New York Botanical Garden. Bronx, NY
 


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