Quercus pumila |
Quercus hypoleucoides |
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runner oak, running oak |
silverleaf oak |
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Habit | Shrubs, deciduous or tardily deciduous, to 1 m. Bark gray to dark brown. | Trees or shrubs, evergreen, to 10 m. Bark black, deeply furrowed. |
Twigs | gray-brown to reddish brown, 1-2 mm diam., sparsely to uniformly pubescent. |
dark reddish brown, 1.5-3 mm diam., pubescent. |
Leaves | blade oblong to narrowly obovate, 25-100 × 10-33 mm, base acute to rounded, margins entire, revolute, with 1 apical awn, apex acute or obtuse to rounded; surfaces abaxially uniformly gray-brown pubescent, rarely glabrate, adaxially somewhat convex, rugose, glabrous or with scattered hairs along midrib. |
blade narrowly ovate to ovate or elliptic, 45-120 × 15-40 mm, base cuneate to rounded, margins strongly revolute, entire or spinose with up to 11 awns, apex acute to attenuate; surfaces abaxially densely tawny- or white-tomentose, adaxially noticeably rugose, glabrous. |
Acorns | annual; cup deeply saucer-shaped to turbinate, 5-12 mm high × 10-15 mm wide, covering 1/3-1/2(-2/3) nut, outer surface pubescent, inner surface densely pubescent, scales rarely involute, often tuberculate, tips tightly appressed, acute; nut globose to ovoid or broadly oblong, 9.5-15 × 9-12 mm, glabrate, scar diam. 5-8 mm. |
annual or biennial; cup deeply saucer- or cup-shaped, 4.5-7 mm high × 6-13 mm wide, covering 1/3 nut or less, outer surface pubescent to sparsely puberulent, inner surface pubescent to floccose, scales appressed, blunt; nut ellipsoid to oblong, 8-16 × 5-10 mm, glabrous, scar diam. 2.5-5.5 mm. |
Terminal | buds brown to red-brown, ovoid, 2.5-4.5 mm, glabrous or with ciliate scale margins. |
buds light chestnut brown, ovoid, 2.5-4.5 mm, glabrous except for ciliate scale margins, occasionally with tuft of hairs at apex. |
Quercus pumila |
Quercus hypoleucoides |
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Phenology | Flowering spring. | Flowering spring. |
Habitat | Dry sandy soils of savannahs, low ridges and oak-pine scrub, occasionally at margins of poorly drained sites | Common in moist canyons and on ridges |
Elevation | 0-100 m (0-300 ft) | 1500-2700 m (4900-8900 ft) |
Distribution |
AL; FL; GA; MS; NC; SC
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AZ; NM; TX; n Mexico
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Discussion | Although no hybrid combinations have been formally proposed, D. M. Hunt (1989) has reported evidence of hybridization with Quercus hemisphaerica, Q. incana, Q. myrtifolia, and Q. phellos. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Quercus hypoleucoides reportedly hybridizes with Q. gravesii (Q. ×inconstans E. J. Palmer [= Q. livermorensis C. H. Muller]) (see C. H. Muller 1951). Several specimens from Pima County, Arizona, fall outside the range of typical Q. hypoleucoides, suggesting hybridization with the Mexican Q. mcvaughii Spellenberg (R. Spellenberg 1992). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 3. | FNA vol. 3. |
Parent taxa | Fagaceae > Quercus > sect. Lobatae | Fagaceae > Quercus > sect. Lobatae |
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Synonyms | Q. hypoleuca | |
Name authority | Walter: Fl. Carol., 234. (1788) | A. Camus: Bull. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat., sér. 2, 4: 124. (1932) |
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