NameThatPlant.net: Quercus hemisphaerica

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Rosids: Fabids: Fagales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Quercus hemisphaerica 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.

INCLUDING PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Quercus hemisphaerica + FAMILY Fagaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 055-03-031?:
Quercus laurifolia FAMILY Fagaceae

COMMON NAME:
Darlington Oak, Sand Laurel Oak

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image of Quercus hemisphaerica, Darlington Oak, Sand Laurel Oak

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July Abbeville County SC

Erskine College

This is the semi-evergreen laurel oak widely planted in southern cities, per Weakley's Flora.

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Quercus hemisphaerica FAMILY Fagaceae

INCLUDING PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Quercus hemisphaerica + FAMILY Fagaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 055-03-031?:
Quercus laurifolia FAMILY Fagaceae

2081

Tree
Perennial
Monoecious

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Documented growing wild in GA NC SC

Common (rare in Piedmont), essentially endemic to the Southeastern Coastal Plain

Look for it in sandhills and other dry, sandy soils, as an abundant component of maritime forests with Q. virginiana, and widely planted as a street tree in most parts of our region, per Weakley's Flora

map
Click here to see a more detailed map from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium,

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...Dry

LEAVES:
Semi-evergreen
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!