FAGACEAE - - Beech Family

Quercus imbricaria Michaux — Shingle Oak

Shingle Oak (Quercus imbricaria) - Tree becoming 30 m. tall, the bark brown and often red-tinged, broken into broad scaly ridges; leaves deciduous; blades elliptic, varying to lanceolate or oblanceolate, 6—20 cm. long, mainly entire, softly brown-tomentose beneath; acorns short-stalked; cup nearly hemispheric, 15—20 mm. wide; nut ovoid or subglobose, 10—15 mm. long. Hybridizes with Q. marilandica = x Q. tridentata.

Habitat:

Rich soils of upper floodplains of rivers and creeks, often at the base of the slope into the upland, also on lower slopes, upland depression swamps, and in drier forests over diabase, limestone, or other calcareous or mafic claypan soils, rarely extending to 5100 feet elevation.

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

The range of Quercus imbricaria (Shingle 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)].

The Georgia range of Quercus imbricaria (Shingle Oak)

Zomlefer, W.B., J.R. Carter, & D.E. Giannasi. 2014 (and ongoing). The Atlas of Georgia Plants. University of Georgia Herbarium (Athens, Georgia) and Valdosta State University Herbarium (Valdosta, Georgia). Available at: http://www.georgiaherbaria.org/.