Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Rosids: Fabids: Fagales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Quercus arkansana
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 arkansana
FAMILY
Fagaceae
COMMON NAME:
Arkansas Oak
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September
Leaves obovate, margin entire with 3 lobes and up to 10 bristle tips, per Field Guide to Native Oak Species of Eastern North America.
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Quercus arkansana
FAMILY
Fagaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Quercus arkansana
FAMILY
Fagaceae
2164
Tree
Perennial
Monoecious
Native to Georgia
Documented growing wild in GA - -
Rare
Look for it on dry bluffs, 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.
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!
- Field Guide to Native Oak Species of Eastern North America p010
- Trees of the Southeastern United States p282
- Woody Plants of the Southeastern US: A Winter Guide p266