NameThatPlant.net: Quercus arkansana

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Rosids: Fabids: Fagales
Genus: Quercus Subgenus: Quercus Section: Lobatae (red oaks)

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Quercus arkansana FAMILY Fagaceae Go to FSUS key

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

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America
Quercus arkansana

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Quercus arkansana

COMMON NAME:
Arkansas Oak

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image of Quercus arkansana, Arkansas Oak

Ron Lance rwl2164_a

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 OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Quercus arkansana FAMILY Fagaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Quercus arkansana FAMILY Fagaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America
Quercus arkansana

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Quercus arkansana

2164

Tree
Perennial
Monoecious

Native to Georgia

Rare

Habitat: Dry bluffs, per Weakley's Flora

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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

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