Quercus margarettae
Common name: sand post oak [1]
| Quercus margarettae | |
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| Photo by John Gwaltney hosted at Southeastern Flora.com | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Division: | Magnoliophyta - Flowering plants |
| Class: | Magnoliopsida - Dicots |
| Order: | Fagales |
| Family: | Fagaceae |
| Genus: | Quercus |
| Species: | Q. margarettae |
| Binomial name | |
| Quercus margarettae Ashe | |
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| Natural range of Quercus margarettae from USDA NRCS Plants Database. | |
Contents
Taxonomic Notes
Synonyms: Q. margaretta, orthographic variant; Q. margarettiae W.W. Ashe ex Small, orthographic variant; Q. stellata var. margaretta (W.W. Ashe ex Small) Sargent, orthographic variant]
Varieties: none
Description
Q. margarettae is a perennial shrub/tree of the Fagaceae family native to North America. [2]
Distribution
Q. margarettae is found in the southeastern corner of the United States from Texas to Virginia. [2]
Ecology
Habitat
Q. margarettae proliferates in sandhills, typically in slightly loamy or clayey soils, not usual in the deepest and most xeric sands. [1] Specimens have been collected from mixed woodland, longleaf pine-scrub oak, sandpine flatwoods with sandy soil, hardwood hammock, planted slash pine on sand ridge, longleaf pine wiregrass scrub oak ridge, hardwood stand, beach ridge, sand pine scrub, and loamy sand of xeric flatwoods.[3]
Phenology
Q. margarettae flowers March-June. [4]
Seed dispersal
This species is thought to be dispersed by gravity. [5]
Conservation and Management
Cultivation and restoration
Photo Gallery
References and notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Weakley, A. S. (2015). Flora of the Southern and Mid-Atlantic States. Chapel Hill, NC, University of North Carolina Herbarium.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 USDA Plant Database https://plants.usda.gov/core/profile?symbol=QUMA13
- ↑ URL: http://herbarium.bio.fsu.edu. Last accessed: June 2018. Collectors: R.K. Godfrey, Loran C. Anderson, Patricia Elliot, W.D. Reese, D.B. Ward, Sidney McDaniel, H.E. Grelen, George Cooley, Richard Eaton, James D. Ray Jr., H. Kurz, Richard Carter, Brenda Herring, Don Herring, Andre F. Clewell, S.W. Leonard, - Thompson, R.F> THorne, R.A.Davidson, Gwynn Ramsey, Richard Mitchell, J. Hardin, Wilson Baker, Angela Peid, K.M. Robertson, Kevin Oakes, Chris Cooksey, MacClendons, Mears, Wilder. States and counties: Florida (Leon, Walton, Okaloosa, Jackson, Liberty, Lafayette, Madison, Alachua, Gadsden, Wakulla, Escambia, Citrus, Marion, Suwannee, Santa Rosa, Bay, Dixe, Washington, Hernando, Duval, Calhoun) Georgia (Thomas, Brook)
- ↑ PanFlora Author: Gil Nelson URL: http://www.gilnelson.com/PanFlora/ Date Accessed: 5/24/18
- ↑ Kirkman, L. Katherine. Unpublished database of seed dispersal mode of plants found in Coastal Plain longleaf pine-grasslands of the Jones Ecological Research Center, Georgia.
