NameThatPlant.net: Quercus ilicifolia

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 ilicifolia FAMILY Fagaceae Go to FSUS key

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 ilicifolia FAMILY Fagaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 055-03-023:

Quercus ilicifolia FAMILY Fagaceae

COMMON NAME:
Bear Oak, Scrub Oak

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Quercus ilicifolia FAMILY Fagaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Quercus ilicifolia FAMILY Fagaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 055-03-023:
Quercus ilicifolia FAMILY Fagaceae

1186

Shrub; Tree
Perennial
Monoecious

Habitat: Xeric soils in ridges in the Mountains and monadnocks in the upper Piedmont, pine-oak / heath woodlands, shale barrens, other dry and acidic sites, per Weakley's Flora

Native to North Carolina

Rare in NC

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/Summer
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
Acorn

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