FAGACEAE - - Beech Family

Quercus boyntonii Beadle — Boynton Oak

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{Quercus boyntonii}
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Boynton Oak (Quercus boyntonii) - Shrub 1—5 m. tall, the bark gray, often tinged with brown or black, broken into broad irregular apressed scales; leaf-blades cuneate in outline, often narrowly so, 5—9 cm. long, with 3—7 small obtuse lobes above the middle or near the apex; tomentose beneath; acorn sessile or nearly so; cup turbinate, 9—12 mm. wide; nut oval or ovoid, 12—15 mm. long.

Habitat:

This species occurs in sandstone glades within a matrix of pine-oak-hickory forest.

Habitat information from:
Weakley, Alan S., Flora of the Southern and Mid-Atlantic States, Working Draft of 21 May 2015.


Distribution

The range of Quercus boyntonii

The range of Quercus boyntonii (Boynton Oak)

Kartesz, J.T., The Biota of North America Program (BONAP). 2015. North American Plant Atlas. (http://bonap.net/napa). Chapel Hill, N.C. [maps generated from Kartesz, J.T. 2015. Floristic Synthesis of North America, Version 1.0. Biota of North America Program (BONAP). (in press)].


There are presently no collections of this species at UGA, therefore no GA range map available.


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