Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Rosids: Fabids: Fagales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Quercus stellata
FAMILY
Fagaceae
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 stellata
FAMILY
Fagaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 055-03-002:
Quercus stellata
FAMILY
Fagaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)
Quercus stellata var. stellata
COMMON NAME:
Post Oak
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JK Marlow jkm191222_2370_q_stellata
Clay County AL
Cheaha State Park
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_qust_001_lvd
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / USDA Wetland flora: Field office illustrated guide pnd_qust_003_lvd
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_quercus_stellata_18
February
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JK Marlow jkm090318_007
March Greenville County SC
Tree occasionally 70-80' tall, usually with large, crooked gnarled branches, per Native Trees of the Southeast, An Identification Guide.
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JK Marlow jkm160331_011c
March Laurens County SC
Staminate flowers in pendulous catkins near base of current year's twig, per Native Trees of the Southeast, An Identification Guide.
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JK Marlow jkm160331_015
March Laurens County SC
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_q_stellata_al_4
July AL
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_q_stellata_leaves
September
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_quercus_stellata_11
November
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_quercus_stellata_3
November
Acorn cup fairly thin, covering 1/3-1/2 of nut, which is 10-20mm long, per Woody Plants of the Southeastern US: A Winter Guide.
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JK Marlow s030702_a
December Greenville County SC
Leaves usually cruciform, largest lateral lobes often sublobed or squarish, per Weakley's Flora.
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Quercus stellata
FAMILY
Fagaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Quercus stellata
FAMILY
Fagaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 055-03-002:
Quercus stellata
FAMILY
Fagaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)
Quercus stellata var. stellata
1201
Tree
Perennial
Monoecious
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Documented growing wild in GA NC SC
Common (uncommon in Mountains)
Look for it in upland forests & woodlands, esp in clay or rocky soils and in fire communities, per Weakley's Flora
Click here to see a more detailed map from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium,
or click here to see a map from SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
...Dry
LEAVES:
Deciduous
Simple
Alternate, 5-ranked
FLOWER:
Spring
Unisexual
Staminate calyx 2-8 lobed, pistillate calyx 6-lobed
Petals absent
3-12 stamens in staminate flowers
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 p050
- Gardening with the Native Plants of Tennessee p310
- Identifying Trees: An All-Season Guide to Eastern North America p310
- Landscaping with Native Trees p202
- Field Guide to Native Oak Species of Eastern North America p096
- Native Trees of the Southeast, An Identification Guide p194
- Trees of the Southeastern United States p277
- Woody Plants of the Blue Ridge p22
- Wildflowers & Plant Communities of the Southern Appalachian Mountains and Piedmont p260
- Woody Plants of the Southeastern US: A Winter Guide p282