Quercus margarettae

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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
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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 has been observed to flower March through June. [4]

Seed dispersal

This species is thought to be dispersed by gravity. [5]

Conservation and Management

Cultivation and restoration

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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. Nelson, G. PanFlora: Plant data for the eastern United States with emphasis on the Southeastern Coastal Plains, Florida, and the Florida Panhandle. www.gilnelson.com/PanFlora/ Accessed: 24 MAY 2018
  5. 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.