Quercus bicolor |
Quercus georgiana |
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chêne bicolore, swamp white oak |
Georgia oak, stone mountain oak |
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Habit | Trees, deciduous, to 30 m. Bark dark gray, scaly or flat-ridged. | Trees, deciduous, to 15 m. Bark gray to light brown, scaly. |
Twigs | light brown or tan, 2-3(-4) mm diam., glabrous. |
deep red, 1-2 mm diam., glabrous. |
Buds | light or dark brown, globose to ovoid, 2-3 mm, glabrous. |
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Leaves | blade obovate to narrowly elliptic or narrowly obovate, (79-)120-180(-215) × (40-)70-110(-160) mm, base narrowly cuneate to acute, margins regularly toothed, or entire with teeth in distal 1/2 only, or moderately to deeply lobed, or sometimes lobed proximally and toothed distally, secondary veins arched, divergent, (3-)5-7 on each side, apex broadly rounded or ovate; surfaces abaxially light green or whitish, with minute, flat, appressed-stellate hairs and erect, 1-4-rayed hairs, velvety to touch, adaxially dark green, glossy, glabrous. |
blade broadly ovate to elliptic or obovate, 40-130 × 20-90 mm, base cuneate to obtuse, margins with 3-5(-7) oblong lobes and up to 10 awns, apex acute; surfaces abaxially glabrous except for conspicuous axillary tufts of tomentum, veins raised, adaxially planar, glabrous. |
Acorns | 1-3(-5) mm, on thin axillary peduncle (20-)40-70 mm; cup hemispheric or turbinate, 10-15 mm deep × 15-25 mm wide, enclosing 1/2-3/4 nut, scales closely appressed, finely grayish tomentose, those near rim of cup often with short, stout, irregularly recurved and sometimes branched, spinose awns emerging from tubercle; nut light brown, ovoid-ellipsoid or oblong, (12-)15-21(-25) × 9-18 mm, glabrous. |
biennial; cup thin, saucer-shaped, 4-6 mm high × 9-14 mm wide, covering 1/3 nut, outer surface puberulent, inner surface glabrous or with a few hairs around scar, scale tips appressed, acute; nut globose or ovoid, 9-14 × 9-14 mm, glabrous, scar diam. 4-7.5 mm. |
Cotyledons | distinct. |
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Terminal | buds red-brown, ovoid to subconic, 2.5-5 mm, glabrous or scales somewhat ciliate. |
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2n | = 24. |
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Quercus bicolor |
Quercus georgiana |
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Phenology | Flowering in spring. | Flowering spring. |
Habitat | Low swamp forests, moist slopes, poorly drained uplands | Granitic outcrops and dry slopes and knolls |
Elevation | 0-1000 m (0-3300 ft) | 50-500 m (200-1600 ft) |
Distribution |
AL; CT; DE; IA; IL; IN; KY; MA; MD; ME; MI; MN; MO; NC; NH; NJ; NY; OH; PA; RI; TN; VA; VT; WI; WV; ON; QC
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AL; GA; SC
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Discussion | Putative hybrids between Quercus bicolor and Q. macrocarpa are common in areas of contact. The hybrids tend to have more deeply lobed leaves and varying degrees of development of awns as a fringe along the margin of the acorn cup. Such characteristics occur sporadically throughout many populations of Q. bicolor; in some cases they may occur because of subtle introgression. The Iroquois used Quercus bicolor in the treatment of cholera, broken bones, consumption, and as a witchcraft medicine (D. E. Moerman 1986). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Quercus georgiana reportedly hybridizes with Q. marilandica (= Q. ×smallii Trelease) and Q. nigra, although D. M. Hunt (1989) has questioned the validity of the former report. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 3. | FNA vol. 3. |
Parent taxa | Fagaceae > Quercus > sect. Quercus | Fagaceae > Quercus > sect. Lobatae |
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Synonyms | Q. bicolor var. angustifolia, Q. bicolor var. cuneiformis, Q. bicolor var. platanoides, Q. platanoides | |
Name authority | Willdenow: in G. H. E. Muhlenberg, Ges. Naturf. Freunde Berlin Neue Schriften 3: 396. (1801) | M. A. Curtis: Amer. J. Sci. Arts, ser. 2, 7: 406. (1849) |
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