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 pagoda
FAMILY
Fagaceae
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Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
You may also want to check Trees, Shrubs, and Woody Vines of North Carolina
Read Edible Wild Plants: Oak from Lytton Musselman and the Southern Appalachian Botanical Society.
Learn more from the Vascular Plants of North Carolina website.
The leaves of Cherrybark or Swamp Spanish Oak have a prominent wedge at their base. The name Cherrybark comes from the way the bark of mature trees can resemble that if a black cherry. Read more at Southern Piedmont Natural History.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Quercus pagoda
FAMILY
Fagaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Quercus pagoda
SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America
Quercus pagoda
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Quercus pagoda
SYNONYMOUS WITH Aquatic & Wetland Plants of Southeastern US (Godfrey & Wooten, 1979 & 1981)
Quercus falcata var. pagodifolia
SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 055-03-022b:
Quercus falcata var. pagodaefolia FAMILY Fagaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Quercus falcata var. pagodifolia
SYNONYMOUS WITH Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)
Quercus falcata var. pagodaefolia
SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Quercus pagoda
SYNONYMOUS WITH -
Quercus rubra var. pagodaefolia
COMMON NAME:
Cherrybark Oak, Swamp Spanish Oak
To see larger pictures, click or hover over the thumbnails.
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Manual of the Trees of North America (Exclusive of Mexico) (Sargent, 1905) mtna_i_289
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_qupa11_001_lvd
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JK Marlow jkm090221_010
February Richland County SC
Congaree National Park
Bark on older trees scaly with age, somewhat resembling large black cherry, per Native Trees of the Southeast, An Identification Guide (Kirkman, Brown, & Leopold, 2007).
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JK Marlow jkm090221_013
February Richland County SC
Congaree National Park
Chestnut-brown cup with pubescent scales covers 1/3-1/2 of rounded brown nut, per Field Guide to Native Oak Species of Eastern North America (Stein, Binion, & Acciavatti, 2003).
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JK Marlow jkm090221_016
February Richland County SC
Congaree National Park
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JK Marlow jkm090221_017
February Richland County SC
Congaree National Park
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JK Marlow s090221_b
February Richland County SC
Congaree National Park
Leaves more regularly lobed than Q. falcata, the base broadly wedge-shaped, per Native Trees of the Southeast, An Identification Guide (Kirkman, Brown, & Leopold, 2007).
COMPARE
leaves of Cherrybark Oak and Southern Red Oak
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_q_pagoda_9_25_05_10
September
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_q_pagoda_9_25_05_3
September
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_quercus_pagoda_leaves
September
Middle lobes usually spread at right angles to the midrib, per Field Guide to Native Oak Species of Eastern North America (Stein, Binion, & Acciavatti, 2003).
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_quercus_pagoda_3
October
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_q_pagoda_3_bark
December Floyd County GA
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Quercus pagoda
FAMILY
Fagaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Quercus pagoda
FAMILY
Fagaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Quercus pagoda
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America
Quercus pagoda
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Quercus pagoda
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Aquatic & Wetland Plants of Southeastern US (Godfrey & Wooten, 1979 & 1981)
Quercus falcata var. pagodifolia
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 055-03-022b:
Quercus falcata var. pagodaefolia
FAMILY
Fagaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Quercus falcata var. pagodifolia
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)
Quercus falcata var. pagodaefolia
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Quercus pagoda
SYNONYMOUS WITH
-
Quercus rubra var. pagodaefolia
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Tree
Perennial
Monoecious
Habitat: Bottomland forests, especially on second terraces, also mesic to dry-mesic upland sites, especially where somewhat base-rich, per Weakley's Flora
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common in Coastal Plain (rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)
CLICK HERE to see a map, notes, and images from Weakley's Flora of the Southeastern US.
LEAVES:
Deciduous
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!
- Gardening with the Native Plants of Tennessee (Hunter, 2002) p311
- Identifying Trees: An All-Season Guide to Eastern North America (Williams, 2007) p278
- Landscaping with Native Trees (Sternberg & Wilson, 1995) p216
- Field Guide to Native Oak Species of Eastern North America (Stein, Binion, & Acciavatti, 2003) p076
- Native Trees of the Southeast, An Identification Guide (Kirkman, Brown, & Leopold, 2007) p188
- Trees of the Southeastern United States (Duncan & Duncan, 1988) p284
- Woody Plants of the Southeastern US: A Winter Guide (Lance, 2004) p276
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