Quercus ilicifolia Wangenh.
Bear oak
Species recognized by A Paton, World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
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Flora of North America Vol. 3 in eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden. Accessed Nov 12, 2008.
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Quercus ilicifolia reportedly hybridizes with Q . coccinea , Q . falcata , Q . imbricaria , Q . marilandica , Q . phellos , Q . rubra , and Q . velutina .
The Iroquois considered Quercus ilicifolia very helpful in treating gynecological problems (D. E. Moerman 1986).
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Flora of North America @ eFloras.org
http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1&taxon_id=200000001
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Flora of North America Vol. 3 in eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden. Accessed Nov 12, 2008.
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Trees or shrubs , deciduous, to 6 m. Bark dark gray, becoming shallowly fissured and scaly, inner bark pinkish. Twigs brown or yellowish brown, 1.5-3 mm diam., pubescent. Terminal buds dark reddish brown, ovoid, 2-4.5 mm, apex puberulent. Leaves: petiole (8-)10-25 mm, pubescent. Leaf blade ovate to elliptic or obovate, 50-120 × 30-90 mm, base cuneate to obtuse, margins with 3-7 acute lobes separated by shallow sinuses and 5-14 awns, apex acute; surfaces abaxially pale green to gray, tomentose, adaxially glossy dark green, glabrous, secondary veins raised on both surfaces. Acorns biennial; cup saucer-shaped to cup-shaped, 5-9 mm high × 10.5-17 mm wide, covering 1/4-1/3(-1/2) nut, outer surface puberulent, inner surface pubescent, scale tips tightly appressed, acute; nut ovoid to subglobose, 9.5-16 × 8-11 mm, striate, puberulent, scar diam. 4.8-7 mm. 2 n = 24.
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Flora of North America @ eFloras.org
http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1&taxon_id=200000001
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"Quercus ilicifolia Wangenh.". Encyclopedia of Life, available from "http://www.eol.org/pages/1151535". Accessed
18 Mar 2010.
