Quercus georgiana |
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Georgia oak, stone mountain oak |
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Habit | Trees, deciduous, to 15 m. Bark gray to light brown, scaly. |
Twigs | deep red, 1-2 mm diam., glabrous. |
Leaves | 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 | 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. |
Terminal | buds red-brown, ovoid to subconic, 2.5-5 mm, glabrous or scales somewhat ciliate. |
Quercus georgiana |
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Phenology | Flowering spring. |
Habitat | Granitic outcrops and dry slopes and knolls |
Elevation | 50-500 m (200-1600 ft) |
Distribution |
AL; GA; SC
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Discussion | 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. |
Parent taxa | Fagaceae > Quercus > sect. Lobatae |
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Name authority | M. A. Curtis: Amer. J. Sci. Arts, ser. 2, 7: 406. (1849) |
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