FAGACEAE - - Beech Family

Quercus coccinea Muenchhausen — Scarlet Oak

Scarlet Oak (Quercus coccinea) - Tree becoming 50 m. tall, the bark brown, with irregular fissures and scaly ridges; leaf-blades oval, varying to elliptic or obovate in outline, 10—20 cm. long, glabrous, except the tufted vein-axils beneath, or with these sometimes nearly or quite hairless, bright-red in fall, pinnately 5—7 lobed, the lobes usually toothed; acorn sessile or short-stalked; cup broadly or shallowly turbinate, 15—20 mm. wide, more or less constricted at the base; nut ovoid or ellipsoid-ovoid, mostly 10—20 mm. long.

Habitat:

Xeric upland forests.

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

The range of Quercus coccinea (Scarlet 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 coccinea (Scarlet 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/.