NameThatPlant.net: Quercus buckleyi

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 buckleyi 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 buckleyi FAMILY Fagaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Quercus buckleyi

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America

Quercus buckleyi

COMMON NAME:
Buckley's Oak

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image of Quercus buckleyi, Buckley's Oak

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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 (Stein, Binion, & Acciavatti, 2003).

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Quercus buckleyi FAMILY Fagaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Quercus buckleyi FAMILY Fagaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Quercus buckleyi

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America
Quercus buckleyi

2186

Tree
Perennial
Monoecious

Habitat: woodlands and forests over calcareous rocks, per Weakley's Flora

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

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