Quercus ellipsoidalis |
Quercus similis |
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Hill's oak, Jack oak, northern pin oak |
bottomland post oak, delta post oak, swamp post oak |
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Habit | Trees, deciduous, to 20 m; lower trunk often with stubs of dead branches. | Trees, deciduous, to 25 m, with single straight trunk. |
Bark | dark gray-brown, shallowly fissured, inner bark orangish. |
brown, scaly. |
Twigs | dark reddish brown, (1-)1.5-3 mm diam., glabrous. |
grayish, 2-3 mm diam., persistently tomentulose. |
Buds | brown, ovoid, 2-3 mm, apex acute or rounded, proximally pubescent. |
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Leaves | blade elliptic, 70-130 × 50-100 mm, base obtuse to truncate, margins with 5-7 deep lobes and 15-55 awns, lobes distally expanded, sinuses usually extending more than 1/2 distance to midrib, apex acute; surfaces abaxially glabrous except for minute axillary tufts of tomentum, adaxially glossy light green, glabrous, secondary veins raised on both surfaces. |
blade obovate or narrowly obovate, (50-)75-120(-150) × 50-65(-80) mm, base rounded-attenuate or acute, margins flat, shallowly 2-3-lobed on each side, lobes usually simple, oblong or rounded, rarely spatulate, not cruciform, secondary veins 3-5 on each side, apex broadly ovate or acute; surfaces abaxially grayish, sparsely glandular and sparsely appressed-stellate, adaxially dark green, glossy, sparsely stellate. |
Acorns | biennial; cup narrowly turbinate to deeply cup-shaped, 6-11 mm high × 10-19 mm wide, covering 1/3-1/2 nut, outer surface reddish brown, puberulent, inner surface light brown, glabrous, rarely with ring of pubescence around scar, scales with straight or slightly concave margins, tips tightly appressed, obtuse or acute; nut ellipsoid to ovoid, rarely subglobose, 10-20 × 9-15 mm, occasionally striate, glabrous, occasionally with 1 or more faint rings of fine pits at apex, scar diam. 4-8 mm. |
1-3, subsessile; cup 6-7 mm deep × 10-13 mm wide, scales closely appressed, grayish, finely tomentulose; nut light brown or dark reddish brown, ovoid or oblong, 12-16 × 8-12 mm, puberulent or glabrate. |
Cotyledons | distinct. |
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Terminal | buds dark reddish brown, ovoid, 3-5 mm, often conspicuously 5-angled in cross section, usually silvery- or tawny-pubescent toward apex. |
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Quercus ellipsoidalis |
Quercus similis |
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Phenology | Flowering spring. | Flowering spring. |
Habitat | Dry sandy sites, rarely on moderately mesic slopes or uplands | Forests in wet stream bottoms, flatwoods, river valleys |
Elevation | 150-500 m (500-1600 ft) | 0-300 m (0-1000 ft) |
Distribution |
IA; IL; IN; MI; MN; OH; WI; ON
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AL; AR; GA; LA; MS; SC; TX
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Discussion | In many treatments (e.g., E. G. Voss 1972+, vol. 2), Quercus ellipsoidalis is included in Q. coccinea. Variation in fruit morphology has led to recognition of several formae (W. Trelease 1919; see also R. J. Jensen 1986) and one variety (Q. ellipsoidalis var. kaposianensis, based on specimens from St. Paul, Minnesota, in which the cup tightly encloses the nut for two-thirds its length at maturity). Quercus ellipsoidalis reportedly hybridizes with Q. rubra and Q. velutina. The Menominee used Quercus ellipsoidalis medicinally to treat suppressed menses caused by cold (D. E. Moerman 1986). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 3. | FNA vol. 3. |
Parent taxa | Fagaceae > Quercus > sect. Lobatae | Fagaceae > Quercus > sect. Quercus |
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Synonyms | Q. ellipsoidalis var. kaposianensis | Q. ashei, Q. stellata var. paludosa |
Name authority | E. J. Hill: Bot. Gaz. 27: 204, plates 2, 3. (1899) | Ashe: J. Elisha Mitchell Sci. Soc. 40: 43. (1924) |
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