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Full Name: - Quercus lyrata

Quercus lyrata Walter (1788)
Infrageneric Classification
Subgenus Quercus, Section Quercus
Common Names in this Database
Description
See: Nixon, Volume 3 of Flora of North America (1997) Page 481
Natural Distribution
USA: (Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia (US), Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Minnesota, Missouri, New Jersey, North Carolina, Oaklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia)
Conservation Status
Rated as Least Concern (LC) in the The Red List of Oaks
Illustration of Leaves
Image from a plant at Ghent University Botanical Garden ©Jan De Langhe, Ghent University Botanical Garden, 2009
Hybrids in this Database
Quercus ×humidicola E.J. Palmer (1937)
Quercus ×megaleia Laughlin (1962)
Quercus ×tottenii Melvin (1956)
Quercus ×sterrettii Trel. (1924)
Quercus ×comptoniae Sarg. (1918)
Main Horticultural References
The European Garden Flora vol. 3 (1989) page 75
Hortus Third (1976) page 934
(Krüssmann) Manual of Cultivated Broad-leaved Trees & Shrubs (in English) vol. 3 (1986) page 95
(Bailey) Manual of Cultivated Plants 2nd. ed. (1949) page 332
(Rehder) Manual of Cultivated Trees and Shrubs, 2nd ed. (1940) page 171
(Jacobson) North American Landscape Trees, (1996) page 555
(Dirr) Manual of Woody Landscape Plants, 5th ed. (1998) page 820
The New Royal Horticultural Society Dictionary of Gardening vol. 3 (1992) page 785
The Royal Horticultural Society Dictionary of Gardening, 2nd ed. vol. 4 (1956) page 1729
(Bean) Trees & Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles, 8th ed. vol. 3 (1976) page 494
World Economic Plants: a Standard Reference (1999) page 417
Recent Monograph References
(Miller & Lamb) Oaks of North America (1985) page 158
(Hard˙ & Lamant) Guide illustré des Chęnes (2006) Volume 2, page 76
(Heathcoat Amory) The Oaks of Chevithorne Barton (2009) page 50 illustrated (young leaves)