Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Rosids: Fabids: Fagales
Genus: Quercus
Subgenus: Quercus
Section: Lobatae (red oaks)
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Quercus hemisphaerica
FAMILY
Fagaceae
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Learn more from the Vascular Plants of North Carolina website.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Quercus hemisphaerica
FAMILY
Fagaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Quercus hemisphaerica
INCLUDING Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Quercus hemisphaerica var. hemisphaerica
INCLUDING Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Quercus hemisphaerica var. maritima
SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 3 (1997)
Quercus hemisphaerica
INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 055-03-031?:
Quercus laurifolia FAMILY Fagaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH (MISAPPLIED) Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Quercus laurifolia
COMMON NAME:
Darlington Oak, Sand Laurel Oak
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Alan S. Weakley asw_3398549187089380
January Dare County NC
Jockeys Ridge State Park
Q. hemisphaerica going all jaggedy-like in its juvenile leaves. — Alan Weakley
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JK Marlow jkm0407x_04
July Abbeville County SC
Erskine College
This is the semi-evergreen laurel oak planted widely as a street tree in southern cities, per Weakley's Flora (2022).
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Quercus hemisphaerica
FAMILY
Fagaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Quercus hemisphaerica
FAMILY
Fagaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Quercus hemisphaerica
INCLUDING
Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Quercus hemisphaerica var. hemisphaerica
INCLUDING
Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Quercus hemisphaerica var. maritima
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 3
Quercus hemisphaerica
INCLUDED WITHIN
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 055-03-031?:
Quercus laurifolia
FAMILY
Fagaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH (MISAPPLIED)
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Quercus laurifolia
2081
Tree
Perennial
Monoecious
Habitat: Longleaf pine sandhills, dry hammocks, and other dry, sandy soils, a component of maritime forests with Q. virginiana, and widely planted as a street tree in most parts of our region, per Weakley's Flora
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common in Coastal Plain (rare in Piedmont)
CLICK HERE to see a map, notes, and images from Weakley's Flora of the Southeastern US.
LEAVES:
Semi-evergreen
Simple
Alternate, 5-ranked
FLOWER:
Spring
Staminate calyx 2-8 lobed, pistillate calyx 6-lobed
Petals absent
3-12 stamens in staminate flowers
Unisexual
Staminate flowers in clustered drooping catkins
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Acorn
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Identifying Trees: An All-Season Guide to Eastern North America (Williams, 2007) p280
- Field Guide to Native Oak Species of Eastern North America (Stein, Binion, & Acciavatti, 2003) p036
- Native Trees of the Southeast, An Identification Guide (Kirkman, Brown, & Leopold, 2007) p172
- Trees of the Southeastern United States (Duncan & Duncan, 1988) p211
- Woody Plants of the Southeastern US: A Winter Guide (Lance, 2004) p270
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