FAGACEAE - - Beech Family

Quercus margarettae W.W. Ashe ex Small — Sand Post Oak

Sand Post Oak (Quercus margarettae) - Shrub, or tree sometimes 10 m. tall, the bark brown or reddish, ridged and fissured; leaf-blades oval or obovate in outline, 6—9 cm. long, more or less pubescent about the veins beneath sinuate or shallowly 3—5 lobed; acorn sessile or short-stalked; cup turbinate-hemispheric, 11—14 mm. wide; nut ellipsoid to ovoid-ellipsoid, 12—14 mm. long.

Habitat:

Sandhills, typically in slightly loamy or clayey soils, not usual in the deepest and most xeric sands.

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

The range of Quercus margarettae (Sand Post 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)].