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 (4/14/23):
Quercus shumardii
FAMILY
Fagaceae
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Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
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Read Edible Wild Plants: Oak from Lytton Musselman and the Southern Appalachian Botanical Society.
Learn more from the Vascular Plants of North Carolina website.
INCLUDING
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Quercus shumardii var. shumardii
FAMILY
Fagaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Quercus shumardii
INCLUDING (MISAPPLIED) Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Quercus shumardii var. schneckii
INCLUDING Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Quercus shumardii var. shumardii
SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 3 (1997)
Quercus shumardii
SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 055-03-016:
Quercus shumardii FAMILY Fagaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Quercus shumardii
COMMON NAME:
Shumard Oak, Swamp Red Oak
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Manual of the Trees of North America (Exclusive of Mexico) (Sargent, 1905) mtna_i_275
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_quercus_shumardii_3
January
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JK Marlow jkm090221_014
February Richland County SC
Congaree National Park
Acorn cup covers 1/3 or less of nut, which is 15-30mm long, per Woody Plants of the Southeastern US: A Winter Guide (Lance, 2004).
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JK Marlow jkm090221_024
February Richland County SC
Congaree National Park
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JK Marlow jkm090221_027
February Richland County SC
Congaree National Park
Acorn cup thick, 15-30mm wide, per Woody Plants of the Southeastern US: A Winter Guide (Lance, 2004).
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JK Marlow s090221_a
February Richland County SC
Congaree National Park
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_quercus_shumardii
March
Usually has a clear bole with a buttressed base and shallow root system, per Field Guide to Native Oak Species of Eastern North America (Stein, Binion, & Acciavatti, 2003).
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_q_shumardii_rw_4
April
Male flowers in slender naked drooping catkins, per Trees of the Southeastern United States (Duncan & Duncan, 1988).
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Gill Newberry gn09_q_shumardii
September
Leaves glabrous except for small tufts of hairs in axils of main veins below, per Trees of the Southeastern United States (Duncan & Duncan, 1988).
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Gill Newberry gn09_q_shumardii_bark
September
Bark grayish or darker, with flat-topped ridges thickening with age, per Woody Plants of the Southeastern US: A Winter Guide (Lance, 2004).
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Gill Newberry gn09_q_shumardii_leaf
September
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_q_shumardii_acorn
September
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_q_shumardii_leaves
September
Leaf w 5-9 lobes, deep sinuses more than halfway to midvein, base truncate, per Field Guide to Native Oak Species of Eastern North America (Stein, Binion, & Acciavatti, 2003).
COMPARE
leaves of Pin Oak, Scarlet Oak, Shumard Oak and Texas Oak
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_q_shumardii_1bark
December Floyd County GA
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Quercus shumardii
FAMILY
Fagaceae
INCLUDING
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Quercus shumardii var. shumardii
FAMILY
Fagaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Quercus shumardii
INCLUDING (MISAPPLIED)
Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Quercus shumardii var. schneckii
INCLUDING
Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Quercus shumardii var. shumardii
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 3
Quercus shumardii
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 055-03-016:
Quercus shumardii
FAMILY
Fagaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Quercus shumardii
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Tree
Perennial
Monoecious
Habitat: Moist and fertile soils of bottomlands and moist slopes, also in xeric sites over calcareous rocks (such as limestone), per Weakley's Flora
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common in NC Piedmont (rare in Mountains; rare in Coastal Plain of GA & SC) (uncommon elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)
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) p049
- Gardening with the Native Plants of Tennessee (Hunter, 2002) p312
- Identifying Trees: An All-Season Guide to Eastern North America (Williams, 2007) p290
- Landscaping with Native Trees (Sternberg & Wilson, 1995) p214
- Field Guide to Native Oak Species of Eastern North America (Stein, Binion, & Acciavatti, 2003) p090
- Native Trees of the Southeast, An Identification Guide (Kirkman, Brown, & Leopold, 2007) p192
- Trees of the Southeastern United States (Duncan & Duncan, 1988) p288
- Woody Plants of the Southeastern US: A Winter Guide (Lance, 2004) p280
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