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Full Name: - Quercus bicolor

Quercus bicolor Willd. (1801)
Infrageneric Classification
Subgenus Quercus, Section Quercus
Common Names in this Database
Description
See: Nixon, Volume 3 of Flora of North America (1997) Page 479
Natural Distribution
CANADA: (SE Ontario, S Quebec), USA: (Alabama, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia, Wyoming)
Hardiness
USDA Zone 4 to 8
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 platanoides (Castigl.) Sudw. (1893)
Hybrids in this Database
Quercus ×jackiana C. K. Schneid. (1904)
Quercus ×humidicola E.J. Palmer (1937)
Quercus ×schuettei Trel. (1917)
Quercus ×introgressa P. M. Thomson (1977)
Quercus ×wagneri Gaynor (1987)
Quercus ×warei T. L. Green & W.J. Hess (1998)
Quercus ×substellata Trel. (1924)
Quercus ×nessiana E.J. Palmer (1945)
Main Horticultural References
The European Garden Flora vol. 3 (1989) page 74
The Hillier Manual of Trees & Shrubs, 7th ed. (2002) page 248
Hortus Third (1976) page 933
(Krüssmann) Manual of Cultivated Broad-leaved Trees & Shrubs (in English) vol. 3 (1986) page 83
(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 548
(Dirr) Manual of Woody Landscape Plants, 5th ed. (1998) page 815
The New Royal Horticultural Society Dictionary of Gardening vol. 3 (1992) page 780
The Royal Horticultural Society Dictionary of Gardening, 2nd ed. vol. 4 (1956) page 1726
(Bean) Trees & Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles, 8th ed. vol. 3 (1976) page 463
(Bean) Trees & Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles, 8th ed. Supplement (1988) page 406
World Economic Plants: a Standard Reference (1999) page 416
Recent Monograph References
(Miller & Lamb) Oaks of North America (1985) page 177
(Hardÿ & Lamant) Guide illustré des Chênes (2006) Volume 2, page 30
(Heathcoat Amory) The Oaks of Chevithorne Barton (2009) page 50 illustrated page 49 (leaves)