FAGACEAE - - Beech Family

Quercus pagoda Rafinesque — Cherrybark Oak

Cherrybark Oak (Quercus pagoda) - Tree becoming 32 m. tall, the bark blackish or gray-brown, roughened with plate-like scales; leaf-blades oval to elliptic in outline, 15—30 cm. long, persistently white—tomentose, pinnatifid above a cuneate or truncate base into 5—13 lanceolate or narrowly triangular lobes; acorn sessile or nearly so; cup shallow turbinate, or saucer-shaped above the turbinate base, 12—14 mm. wide; nut subglobose, about 10 mm. long.

Habitat:

Bottomland forests, especially on second terraces, also mesic to dry-mesic upland sites, especially where somewhat base-rich. A Southeastern Coastal Plain endemic.

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

The range of Quercus pagoda (Cherrybark 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 pagoda (Cherrybark 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/.