Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Rosids: Fabids: Fagales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Quercus macrocarpa var. macrocarpa
FAMILY
Fagaceae
Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Read Edible Wild Plants: Oak from Lytton Musselman and the Southern Appalachian Botanical Society.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Quercus macrocarpa var. macrocarpa
FAMILY
Fagaceae
COMMON NAME:
Bur Oak, Mossycup Oak
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_quercus_macrocarpa
May MA
Arnold Arboretum
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_quercus_macrocarpa_2
May MA
Arnold Arboretum
Bark dark grayish-brown, rough, with deep furrows and prominent ridges, per Native Trees of the Southeast, An Identification Guide.
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_quercus_macrocarpa_3
May MA
Arnold Arboretum
Bark more vertically ridged and darker brown than that of White Oak, per Native Trees of the Southeast, An Identification Guide.
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JK Marlow s060618_a
June Pickens County SC
Clemson University
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JK Marlow s060618_b
June Pickens County SC
Clemson University
Leaves often fiddle-shaped, smooth shiny dark green above, pale hairy below, per Native Trees of the Southeast, An Identification Guide.
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JK Marlow jkm111015_010016
October
Cup's grayish pubescent scales form a fringe around & enclose 1/2-7/8 of nut, per Field Guide to Native Oak Species of Eastern North America.
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JK Marlow s101017_buroak
October Mecklenburg County NC
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Quercus macrocarpa var. macrocarpa
FAMILY
Fagaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Quercus macrocarpa var. macrocarpa
FAMILY
Fagaceae
2084
Tree
Perennial
Monoecious
Native: north & west of the Carolinas & Georgia
Documented growing wild in - - -
Look for it in rich bottomland forests, sometimes in drier forests and then usually over limestone or other calcareous rocks, 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.
...Moist
...Variable
...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:
Acorn
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Gardening with the Native Plants of Tennessee p309
- Identifying Trees: An All-Season Guide to Eastern North America p302
- Field Guide to Native Oak Species of Eastern North America p054
- Native Trees of the Southeast, An Identification Guide p179
- Trees of the Southeastern United States p279
- Woody Plants of the Southeastern US: A Winter Guide p272