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''Q. margarettae'' proliferates in sandhills, typically in slightly loamy or clayey soils, not usual in the deepest and most xeric sands. <ref name= "Weakley 2015"> Weakley, A. S. (2015). Flora of the Southern and Mid-Atlantic States. Chapel Hill, NC, University of North Carolina Herbarium. </ref>
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''Q. margarettae'' proliferates in sandhills, typically in slightly loamy or clayey soils, not usual in the deepest and most xeric sands. <ref name= "Weakley 2015"> Weakley, A. S. (2015). Flora of the Southern and Mid-Atlantic States. Chapel Hill, NC, University of North Carolina Herbarium. </ref> 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.<ref name = "FSU herbarium"> 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) </ref>
 
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''Q. margarettae'' flowers March-June. <ref name= "PanFlora"> PanFlora Author: Gil Nelson URL: [http://www.gilnelson.com/PanFlora/ http://www.gilnelson.com/PanFlora/] Date Accessed: 5/24/18 </ref>
 
''Q. margarettae'' flowers March-June. <ref name= "PanFlora"> PanFlora Author: Gil Nelson URL: [http://www.gilnelson.com/PanFlora/ http://www.gilnelson.com/PanFlora/] Date Accessed: 5/24/18 </ref>

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Common name: sand post oak [1]

Quercus margarettae
Quercus margarettae SEF.jpg
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
QUER MARG DIST.JPG
Natural range of Quercus margarettae from USDA NRCS Plants Database.

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]

Conservation and Management

Cultivation and restoration

Photo Gallery

References and notes

  1. 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. 2.0 2.1 USDA Plant Database https://plants.usda.gov/core/profile?symbol=QUMA13
  3. 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)
  4. PanFlora Author: Gil Nelson URL: http://www.gilnelson.com/PanFlora/ Date Accessed: 5/24/18