OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

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   Go to FSUS key



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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image of Quercus hemisphaerica, Darlington Oak, Sand Laurel Oak

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

image of Quercus hemisphaerica, Darlington Oak, Sand Laurel Oak

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

 

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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)

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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

 

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