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

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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!

• Field Guide to Native Oak Species of Eastern North America p036
• Native Trees of the Southeast, An Identification Guide p172
• Trees of the Southeastern United States p211
• Woody Plants of the Southeastern US: A Winter Guide p270

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

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