Scientific
Name
Quercus
Common Name
oak |
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Characteristics
 ID
hints- "sawtooth oak"
- Buds clustered at twig apex
- - Branches often short pins*
- - Leaves clustered at twig apex
- Leaf margin with bristle(s)**
- - Leaves clustered at twig apex
- - Tufts hairs in axils below*
- "laurel oak"
- Leaf margin entire, bristle lacking
- - Leaves glabrous below
- - Leaves obtuse or apex lobed
- "pin oak"
- Leaves pinnately lobed**
- - Lobe apices with bristles**
- - Axillary tufts of hairs below
- "southern red oak"
- Leaves pinnately lobed**
- - Lobe apices with bristles**
- - Leaves downy* below
- "white oak"
- Leaves pinnately lobed**
- - Lobe apices rounded, lacking bristles
- Fruits a nut in a cup (acorn)***
- - Cup = involucre of bracts
- - Bracts imbricated, warty, or sticks
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4-H Horticulture Contest, Dr.
Alice B. Russell, Dr. Paul R. Fantz, and Larry Bass, Department
of Horticultural Science, NC Cooperative Extension Service, NC State University.
All Pictures Copyright @1997Alice B. Russell. Computer
programming by Miguel A. Buendia, graphics by Brad Capel.
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