Report from the Oak ICRA checklist
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Full Name: - Quercus virginiana

Quercus virginiana Mill. (1768)
Infrageneric Classification
Subgenus Quercus, Section Virentes
Common Names in this Database
Description
See: Nixon, Volume 3 of Flora of North America (1997) Page 503
Natural Distribution
USA: (Alabama, Florida, Georgia (US), Louisiana, Missouri, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia)
Hardiness
USDA Zone 7(8) to 10
Conservation Status
Rated as Least Concern (LC) in the The Red List of Oaks
Illustration of Leaves
Image from a plant at Arboretum Het Leen Eeklo (Belgium) ©Jan De Langhe, Ghent University Botanical Garden, 2010
Synonyms in this Database
Quercus virens Aiton (1789)
Hybrids in this Database
Quercus ×nessiana E.J. Palmer (1945)
Quercus ×comptoniae Sarg. (1918)
Quercus ×burnetensis Little (1943)
Quercus ×harbisonii Sarg. (1918)
Main Horticultural References
(Grimshaw & Bayton) New Trees (2009) page 757 with photograph of tree
The European Garden Flora vol. 3 (1989) page 74
The Hillier Manual of Trees & Shrubs, 7th ed. (2002) page 255
Hortus Third (1976) page 935
(Krüssmann) Manual of Cultivated Broad-leaved Trees & Shrubs (in English) vol. 3 (1986) page 111
(Bailey) Manual of Cultivated Plants 2nd. ed. (1949) page 331
(Jacobson) North American Landscape Trees, (1996) page 563
(Dirr) Manual of Woody Landscape Plants, 5th ed. (1998) page 837
The New Royal Horticultural Society Dictionary of Gardening vol. 3 (1992) page 788
The Royal Horticultural Society Dictionary of Gardening, 2nd ed. vol. 4 (1956) page 1731
World Economic Plants: a Standard Reference (1999) page 418
Recent Monograph References
(Miller & Lamb) Oaks of North America (1985) page 130
(Hard˙ & Lamant) Guide illustré des Chęnes (2006) Volume 2, page 166
(Heathcoat Amory) The Oaks of Chevithorne Barton (2009) page 184 illustrated (young leaves)