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Tree
Perennial
Monoecious

Native: Western US

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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:
Summer/Fall
Acorn

TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!

Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.

Read Edible Wild Plants: Oak from Lytton Musselman and the Southern Appalachian Botanical Society.

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

PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Quercus buckleyi FAMILY Fagaceae

COMMON NAME:
Buckley Oak

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Ron Lance rwl2186_a

October

Leaves have 7-9 lobes (that may be distally expanded) and a truncate base, per Field Guide to Native Oak Species of Eastern North America.

"Common names should be written in lower case unless part of the name is proper and then the first letter of only the proper term is capitalized. For example, sugar maple would be written with lower case letters while Japanese maple would be written with the capital J. This is the accepted method for writing common names in scientific circles and should be familiar to the student. In this text, and many others, common names are written with capital first letters. This was done to set the name off from the rest of the sentence and make it more evident to the reader. Actually in modern horticultural writings the capitalized common name predominates." — Michael Dirr, Manual of Woody Landscape Plants