Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Rosids: Fabids: Fagales
Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Read Edible Wild Plants: Oak from Lytton Musselman and the Southern Appalachian Botanical Society.
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Quercus sinuata var. breviloba
FAMILY
Fagaceae
COMMON NAME:
Bastard Oak
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Ron Lance rwl_sinuatabreviloba2
September
Leaf shape variable, from wavy-margined to entire, lobes rounded to acute, per Woody Plants of the Southeastern US: A Winter Guide.
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Ron Lance rwl_sinuatabreviloba2b
September
Acorn cup thin, very shallow, covering 1/4 or less of nut, per Woody Plants of the Southeastern US: A Winter Guide.
2192
Shrub; Tree
Perennial
Monoecious
Native: Western US
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:
Summer/Fall
Acorn
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Field Guide to Native Oak Species of Eastern North America p094
- Trees of the Southeastern United States p275
- Woody Plants of the Southeastern US: A Winter Guide p280