The genus ''Quercus'' contains about 500 species, some of which are listed here. The genus, as is the case with many large genera, is
divided
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into
subgenera
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and
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s. Traditionally, the genus ''Quercus'' was divided into the two subgenera ''
Cyclobalanopsis
An oak is a tree or shrub in the genus ''Quercus'' (; Latin "oak tree") of the beech family, Fagaceae. There are approximately 500 extant species of oaks. The common name "oak" also appears in the names of species in related genera, notably ''L ...
'', the ring-cupped oaks, and ''Quercus'', which included all the other sections. However, a comprehensive revision in 2017 identified different relationships. Now the genus is commonly divided into a subgenus ''Quercus'' and a sugenus ''Cerris'', with ''Cyclobalanopsis'' included in the latter. The sections of subgenus ''Quercus'' are mostly native to the
New World
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, with the notable exception of the white oaks of sect. ''Quercus'' and the endemic Quercus pontica. In contrast, the sections of the subgenus ''Cerris'' are exclusively native to the
Old World
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Legend
Species with
evergreen
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foliage ("
live oak
Live oak or evergreen oak is any of a number of oaks in several different sections of the genus ''Quercus'' that share the characteristic of evergreen foliage. These oaks are not more closely related to each other than they are to other oaks. ...
s") are tagged '#'. Species in the genus have been recategorized between
deciduous
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and evergreen on numerous occasions, although this does not necessarily mean that species in the two groups are closely related.
Subgenus ''Quercus''
Section ''Quercus''
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The white oaks (synonym sect. ''Lepidobalanus'' or ''Leucobalanus''). Europe, Asia, north Africa, North America. Styles short; acorns mature in 6 months, sweet or slightly bitter, inside of acorn shell hairless.
* '' Quercus ajoensis'' — Ajo Mountain shrub oak, Blue shrub oak —
Arizona
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,
New Mexico
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, population_demonym = New Mexican ( es, Neomexicano, Neomejicano, Nuevo Mexicano)
, seat = Santa Fe, New Mexico, Santa Fe
, LargestCity = Albuquerque, New Mexico, Albuquerque
, LargestMetro = Albuquerque metropolitan area, Tiguex
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,
Baja California
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Quercus alba
An oak is a tree or shrub in the genus ''Quercus'' (; Latin "oak tree") of the beech family, Fagaceae. There are approximately 500 extant species of oaks. The common name "oak" also appears in the names of species in related genera, notably ...
'' — white oak — eastern and central North America
* '' Quercus aliena'' — Oriental white oak — eastern Asia
* '' Quercus ariifolia'' — Mexico
* '' Quercus arizonica'' — Arizona white oak — # southwestern U.S., northwestern Mexico
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Quercus austrina
''Quercus austrina'', the bastard white oak or bluff oak, is an oak species that is endemic to the southeastern United States from Mississippi to the Carolinas, with a few isolated populations in Arkansas.
''Quercus austrina'' can grow to a ...
Quercus chapmanii
''Quercus chapmanii'', commonly referred to as the Chapman oak, is a species of oak that grows in the southeastern United States.
Description
''Quercus chapmanii'' is a shrub or small tree occasionally reaching a height of 6 meters (20 feet) but ...
Quercus copeyensis
''Quercus copeyensis'' is a species of oak endemic to the Talamancan montane forests of Costa Rica and Panama. It is commonly called Panamanian oak.
''Quercus copeyensis'' is a large deciduous tree up to tall with a trunk frequently more than ...
'' — #
Costa Rica
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,
Panama
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Quercus fabrei
''Quercus fabrei'', or Faber's oak, is a species of deciduous oak tree found in China (Anhui, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, south Shaanxi, Sichuan, Yunnan and Zhejiang provinces) as well as Hong Kong ...
'' — Faber's oak — central to southern China
* '' Quercus faginea'' — Portuguese oak — # southwestern Europe
* '' Quercus fulva'' — Mexico
* †'' Quercus furuhjelmi'' — Eocene to Miocene - Alaska, Kazhakstan
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Quercus fusiformis
''Quercus fusiformis'' (also often referred to as ''Q. virginiana'' var. ''fusiformis''), commonly known as escarpment live oak, plateau live oak, plateau oak, or Texas live oak, is an evergreen or nearly evergreen tree. Its native range inc ...
'' — Texas live oak or plateau live oak — # south central North America
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Quercus gambelii
''Quercus gambelii'', with the common name Gambel oak, is a deciduous small tree or large shrub that is widespread in the foothills and lower mountains of western North America. It is also regionally called scrub oak, oak brush, and white oak.
...
'' — Gambel oak — southwestern North America
* '' Quercus garryana'' — Oregon white oak or Garry oak — western North America
* '' Quercus geminata'' — sand live oak — # southeastern United States
* '' Quercus glaucoides'' — # Mexico
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Quercus greggii
''Quercus greggi'', otherwise known as the Mexican oak, is a monoecious semi-evergreen oak that is adapted to survive in arid conditions. It is native to Mexico and commonly grow around north of the 24th parallel and spreads across multiple l ...
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, northern
Turkey
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, western
Georgia
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* Georgia (country), a country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia
* Georgia (U.S. state), a state in the Southeast United States
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, southwestern
Russia
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Quercus havardii
''Quercus havardii'' (common names include shinnery oak, shin oak and Havard oak) is a deciduous, low-growing, thicket-forming shrub that occupies some in the southern Great Plains of North America. Clones may reach hundreds to thousands of yea ...
'' — Havard oak, shinnery oak, shin oak — south central North America
* †'' Quercus hiholensis'' — Miocene — # Washington State
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Quercus hinckleyi
''Quercus hinckleyi'', commonly called Hinckley oak, is a rare species in the white oak group (''Quercus'' Section ''Quercus''). It has a restricted range in the Chihuahuan Desert of the southwestern United States and northern Mexico ( Chihuahua ...
'' — Hinckley oak — # Texas, northwestern Mexico
* '' Quercus hondurensis'' — Honduras oak — #
Honduras
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* '' Quercus iberica —'' Georgian oak — Caucasus an bordering regions
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Quercus infectoria
''Quercus infectoria'' or the Aleppo oak is a species of oak well known for producing galls (called manjakani in Malaysia, majuphal in India) that have been traditionally used for centuries in Asia medicinally while also used in softening leather ...
'' — Aleppo oak, Cyprus oak — southern Europe, southwestern Asia
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Quercus infectoria
''Quercus infectoria'' or the Aleppo oak is a species of oak well known for producing galls (called manjakani in Malaysia, majuphal in India) that have been traditionally used for centuries in Asia medicinally while also used in softening leather ...
'' Olivier var. ''veneris'' (C.K. Schneider) Meikle, or ''Quercus boissieri'' Reut./Boissier oak — Mount Hermon, Golan Heights, and Jordan
* '' Quercus insignis'' — Mexico, Belize, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Panama
* '' Quercus intricata'' — Coahuila scrub oak — # two isolated localities in west Texas, northern
Mexico
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Quercus john-tuckeri
''Quercus john-tuckeri'' is a North American species of oak known by the common name Tucker oak, or Tucker's oak.Nixon, K. C. and C. H. Muller. (1994). New names in California oaks. Novon 4:4 391-93. It is endemic to California, where it grows in ...
'' — Tucker's oak — California
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Quercus laceyi
''Quercus laceyi'', the Lacey oak, is a small to medium-size deciduous oak tree which is native to northeastern Mexico (Coahuila and Nuevo León) and to the Texas Hill Country in central Texas in the United States.
Description
''Quercus laceyi' ...
'' — lacey oak — Edwards Plateau of Texas, northern Mexico
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Quercus laeta
''Quercus laeta'' is an oak species in the white oak section, ''Quercus'' section ''Quercus'', in the beech family. It is widespread across much of Mexico from Sinaloa and Nuevo León south as far as Oaxaca.
Description
''Quercus laeta'' is a ...
'' — Mexico
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Quercus lanata
''Quercus lanata'', the woolly-leaved oak, is a species of ''Quercus'' native to southern and southeastern Asia, including India (from eastern Uttarakhand to Arunachal Pradesh), Bhutan, Nepal, Indochina (Vietnam, Myanmar, northern Thailand), and ...
'' — woolly-leaved oak — # Himalayas, southeast Asia
* ''
Quercus lancifolia
''Quercus lancifolia'' is a species of oak found in Central America and Mexico.Quercus leucotrichophora
''Quercus leucotrichophora'' is a tree belonging to Family Fagaceae; commonly known as Banjh oak, Banj oak (Uttarakhand) and Ban oak (Himachal). In Nepal, it is known as ''Banjhi'', ''Rainj'', ''Khasarant'', ''Tikhe bhanjh'' in standard Nepali ...
'' — Banj oak, blackjack oak, grey oak — # Himalayas
* '' Quercus liebmannii'' — Mexico
* '' Quercus lobata'' — valley oak or California white oak — California
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Quercus lusitanica
''Quercus lusitanica'', commonly known as gall oak, Lusitanian oak, or dyer's oak, is a species of oak native to Portugal, Spain ( Galicia and western Andalucia) and Morocco. ''Quercus lusitanica'' is the source of commercial nutgalls. These gall ...
'' — gall oak or Lusitanian oak — Iberia, North Africa
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Quercus lyrata
''Quercus lyrata'', the overcup oak, is an oak in the white oak group (''Quercus'' sect. ''Quercus''). The common name, overcup oak, refers to its acorns that are mostly enclosed within the acorn cup. It is native to lowland wetlands in the eas ...
'' — overcup oak — eastern North America
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Quercus macrocarpa
''Quercus macrocarpa'', the bur oak or burr oak, is a species of oak tree native to eastern North America. It is in the white oak section, ''Quercus'' sect. ''Quercus'', and is also called mossycup oak, mossycup white oak, blue oak, or scrub o ...
Quercus michauxii
''Quercus michauxii'', the swamp chestnut oak, is a species of oak in the white oak section ''Quercus'' section ''Quercus'' in the beech family. It is native to bottomlands and wetlands in the southeastern and midwestern United States, in coastal ...
'' — swamp chestnut oak — eastern North America
* '' Quercus microphylla'' — Mexico
* '' Quercus minima'' — dwarf live oak — # southeastern North America
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Quercus mongolica
''Quercus mongolica'', commonly known as Mongolian oak, is a species of oak
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'' — Mongolian oak — eastern Asia
* '' Quercus muehlenbergii'' — Chinkapin oak — eastern, central, and southwestern US (West Texas and
New Mexico
)
, population_demonym = New Mexican ( es, Neomexicano, Neomejicano, Nuevo Mexicano)
, seat = Santa Fe, New Mexico, Santa Fe
, LargestCity = Albuquerque, New Mexico, Albuquerque
, LargestMetro = Albuquerque metropolitan area, Tiguex
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), northern Mexico
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Quercus oblongifolia
Quercus oblongifolia, commonly known as the Mexican blue oak, Arizona blue oak, Blue live oak or Sonoran blue oak, is an evergreen small tree or large shrub in the white oak group.
Distribution
''Quercus oblongifolia'' grows in high grasslands, ...
'' — Arizona blue oak, Southwestern blue oak, or Mexican blue oak — # southwestern U.S., northwestern Mexico
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Quercus obtusata
''Quercus obtusata'' is an oak in the white oak group (''Quercus'' sect. ''Quercus'') endemic to Mexico, with a distribution ranging from San Luis Potosí and Nayarit south to Oaxaca, from 620 to 2800 MSL.Quercus oglethorpensis
''Quercus oglethorpensis'' (also called Oglethorpe oak) is a species of plant in the beech family. It is endemic to the United States. It is named for Oglethorpe County, Georgia, where it was first discovered. The county, in turn, is named f ...
Quercus petraea
''Quercus petraea'', commonly known as the sessile oak, Cornish oak, Irish Oak or durmast oak, is a species of oak tree native to most of Europe and into Anatolia and Iran. The sessile oak is the national tree of Ireland, and an unofficial embl ...
Quercus polymorpha
''Quercus polymorpha'', the Mexican white oak, Monterrey oak or netleaf white oak, is a North American species of oak. It is widespread in Mexico, Guatemala, and Honduras, and known from a single population in the United States (about north of t ...
'' — Monterrey oak, Mexican white oak — # Mexico and extreme S. Texas
* '' Quercus praeco'' — Mexico
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Quercus prinoides
''Quercus prinoides'', commonly known as dwarf chinkapin oak, dwarf chinquapin oak, dwarf chestnut oak or scrub chestnut oak, is a shrubby, clone-forming oak native to central-eastern North America.
Description
The dwarf chinkapin oak is a s ...
'' — dwarf chinkapin oak — eastern North America
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Quercus pubescens
''Quercus pubescens'', the downy oak or pubescent oak, is a species of white oak (genus ''Quercus'' sect. ''Quercus'') native to southern Europe and southwest Asia, from northern Spain (Pyrenees) east to the Crimea and the Caucasus. It is also fo ...
'' — downy oak — Europe, Anatolia
* '' Quercus pungens'' — Sandpaper oak or Pungens oak — southwestern U.S., Mexico
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Quercus robur
''Quercus robur'', commonly known as common oak, pedunculate oak, European oak or English oak, is a species of flowering plant in the beech and oak family, Fagaceae. It is a large tree, native to most of Europe west of the Caucasus. It is widel ...
'' — pedunculate oak, English oak or French oak — Europe, West Asia
* ''
Quercus rugosa
''Quercus rugosa'', commonly known as the netleaf oak, is a broad-leaved tree in the beech and oak family Fagaceae. It is native to southern North America.
Description
''Quercus rugosa'' is an evergreen shrub or tree. The bark is brown and scal ...
'' — netleaf oak or Rugosa oak — # southwestern U.S., northwestern Mexico
* '' Quercus sagraeana'' — Cuban oak — # western
Cuba
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Sierra Madre Occidental
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and
Mexican Plateau
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Quercus tarahumara
''Quercus tarahumara'' (also called Tarahumara oak) is a species of tree in the beech family. It grows in the Sierra Madre Occidental in the Mexican States of Chihuahua, Sonora, Durango, and Sinaloa. Some of the populations lie within the territo ...
'' — northwestern Mexico
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Quercus toumeyi
''Quercus toumeyi'', the Toumey oak, is a North American species of tree in the beech family. It is found in northwestern Mexico and the southwestern United States. It grows in Sonora, Chihuahua, Arizona, New Mexico, and the extreme westernmost ...
'' — Toumey oak — # southwest New Mexico, southeastern Arizona, northern Mexico
* '' Quercus tuberculata'' — Mexico
* '' Quercus turbinella'' — Turbinella oak, Arizona Blue Shrub oak, Shrub live oak or scrub live oak — # southwestern North America
* '' Quercus × turneri'' — Turner's oak — Spain
* '' Quercus vaseyana'' — Vasey oak — # southwestern North America
* '' Quercus verde'' — Mexico
* '' Quercus vicentensis'' — El Salvador, Guatemala, and southern Mexico
* ''
Quercus virginiana
''Quercus virginiana'', also known as the southern live oak, is an evergreen oak tree endemic to the Southeastern United States. Though many other species are loosely called live oak, the southern live oak is particularly iconic of the Old Sou ...
'' — southern live oak — # southeastern North America
* '' Quercus welshii'' — havard oak, Utah sand oak, wavy leaf oak — # southwestern North America
* '' Quercus wutaishanica'' — Liaoning oak — China, Mongolia
Section ''Ponticae''
Western Asia and Western North America, produces catkins up to 10cm long, acorns mature annually.
* '' Quercus pontica'' — Pontine oak — western Asia
* '' Quercus sadleriana'' — deer oak — # southwestern Oregon, northern
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Section ''Mesobalanus''
Europe, Asia, north Africa. Styles long; acorns mature in 6 months, bitter, inside of acorn shell hairless (closely related to sect. ''Quercus'' and sometimes included in it).
* '' Quercus canariensis'' — Mirbeck's oak or Algerian oak — # North Africa & Spain
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Quercus dentata
''Quercus dentata'', also called Japanese emperor oak or daimyo oak ( ja, 柏, ''kashiwa''; ; ko, 떡갈나무, ''tteokgalnamu'') is a species of oak native to East Asia ( Japan, Korea and China). The name of the tree is often translated as ...
'' — daimyo oak — eastern Asia
* '' Quercus frainetto'' — Hungarian oak or Italian oak — southeastern Europe
* '' Quercus macranthera'' — Caucasian oak or Persian oak — western Asia
* ''
Quercus pyrenaica
''Quercus pyrenaica'', commonly known as Pyrenean oak, is a tree native to southwestern Europe and northwestern North Africa. Despite its common name, it is rarely found in the Pyrenees Mountains and is more abundant in northern Portugal and nor ...
'' — Pyrenean oak — southwestern Europe
* '' Quercus vulcanica'' — Kasnak oak — southwestern Asia
Section ''Protobalanus''
The intermediate oaks. Southwest USA and northwest Mexico. Styles short, acorns mature in 18 months, very bitter, inside of acorn shell woolly.
* '' Quercus cedrosensis'' — Cedros Island oak — # California + Baja California
* '' Quercus chrysolepis'' — canyon live oak — # southwestern North America
* ''
Quercus palmeri
''Quercus palmeri'' is a species of oak known by the common name Palmer oak, or Palmer's oak. It is native to California (as far north as populations just south and east of the San Francisco Bay), Baja California, Southern Nevada, and in Arizona ...
'' — Palmer oak — # California, western Arizona
* '' Quercus tomentella'' — island oak — # offshore islands of California + Baja California
* '' Quercus vacciniifolia'' — huckleberry oak — # southwestern North America
Section ''Lobatae''
The red oaks (synonym sect. ''Erythrobalanus''). North, Central and South America. Styles long, acorns mature in 18 months (in most species),Kershner, Bruce, and Craig Tufts. ''National Wildlife Federation Field Guide to Trees of North America''. New York: Sterling Pub., 2008. Print. very bitter, inside of acorn shell woolly.
* '' Quercus acerifolia'' — maple-leaved oak or mapleleaf oak — Arkansas
* '' Quercus acherdophylla'' – # Mexico
* '' Quercus acutifolia'' — Mexico
* '' Quercus affinis'' – # Mexico
* '' Quercus agrifolia'' — coast live oak — # California, northern Baja California
* '' Quercus albocincta'' — Mexico (
Sierra Madre Occidental
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Quercus castanea
''Quercus castanea'' is a species of oak tree. It is widespread across much of Mexico, from Sonora to Chiapas, and in Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras.Quercus coccinea
''Quercus coccinea'', the scarlet oak, is a deciduous tree in the red oak section ''Lobatae'' of the genus ''Quercus'', in the family Fagaceae.
It is primarily distributed in the central and eastern United States. It occurs on dry, sandy, usual ...
Quercus cortesii
''Quercus cortesii'' is a species of oak native to Central America and southern Mexico.
Description
''Quercus cortesii'' is a large evergreen tree, growing up to 40 meters tall.
''Quercus cortesii'' is a slow-growing tree with a very long lif ...
Sierra Madre del Sur
The Sierra Madre del Sur is a mountain range in southern Mexico, extending from southern Michoacán east through Guerrero, to the Isthmus of Tehuantepec in eastern Oaxaca.
Geography
The Sierra Madre del Sur joins with the Eje Volcánico Tran ...
Sierra Madre Oriental
The Sierra Madre Oriental () is a mountain range in northeastern Mexico. The Sierra Madre Oriental is part of the American Cordillera, a chain of mountain ranges (cordillera) that consists of an almost continuous sequence of mountain ranges that f ...
Sierra Madre Occidental
The Sierra Madre Occidental is a major mountain range system of the North American Cordillera, that runs northwest–southeast through northwestern and western Mexico, and along the Gulf of California. The Sierra Madre is part of the American ...
Quercus ellipsoidalis
''Quercus ellipsoidalis'', the northern pin oak or Hill's oak, is a North American species of oak tree native to the north-central United States and south-central Canada, primarily in the Great Lakes region and the Upper Mississippi Valley. It ...
'' — northern pin oak — eastern North America
* '' Quercus elliptica'' — Mexico
* '' Quercus emoryi'' — Emory oak — # southwestern U.S., northern Mexico
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Quercus falcata
''Quercus falcata'', also called southern red oak, spanish oak, bottomland red oak or three-lobed red oak is an oak (part of the genus ''Quercus''). Native to the southeastern United States, it gets its name the "Spanish Oak" as these are the ar ...
Quercus gentryi
''Quercus gentryi'' is a species of oak. It is native to western and north-western Mexico, from Sonora south to Michoacán and east as far as Guanajuato.
Description
''Quercus gentryi'' is a short evergreen tree up to tall with a trunk as much ...
Quercus humboldtii
''Quercus humboldtii'', commonly known as the Andean oak, Colombian oak or roble, is a species of oak found only in Colombia and Panamá. It is named for Alexander von Humboldt.
Description
''Quercus humboldtii'' is an evergreen tree which gro ...
Quercus imbricaria
''Quercus imbricaria'', the shingle oak, is a deciduous tree in the red oak group of oaks. It is native primarily to the Midwestern and Upper South regions of North America.
Description
A tree usually 15–18 meters (50–60 feet) high, maxim ...
'' — shingle oak — eastern North America
* '' Quercus incana'' — bluejack oak — southeastern North America
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Quercus inopina
''Quercus inopina'', the sandhill oak, is an uncommon North American species of oak shrub. It has been found only in the state of Florida
Florida is a state located in the Southeastern region of the United States. Florida is bordered to t ...
'' — sandhill oak — Florida
* '' Quercus jonesii'' — northern Mexico
* '' Quercus kelloggii'' — California black oak — California, southwestern Oregon
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Quercus laevis
''Quercus laevis'', the turkey oak, is a member of the red oak group of oaks. It is native to the southeastern United States. The name turkey oak derives from the resemblance of the leaves to a turkey's foot. A Turkish and southern European sp ...
Sierra Madre Occidental
The Sierra Madre Occidental is a major mountain range system of the North American Cordillera, that runs northwest–southeast through northwestern and western Mexico, and along the Gulf of California. The Sierra Madre is part of the American ...
Quercus myrtifolia
''Quercus myrtifolia'', the myrtle oak, is a North American species of oak. It is native to the southeastern United States (Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina). It is often found in coastal areas on sandy soils.
It is an eve ...
'' — myrtle oak — # southeastern North America
* '' Quercus nigra'' — water oak — # eastern North America
* '' Quercus nixoniana'' — Mexico
* '' Quercus pagoda'' — cherrybark oak — southeastern North America
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Quercus parvula
''Quercus parvula'', the Santa Cruz Island oak, is an evergreen red oak (Series ''Agrifoliae'', Section '' Lobatae'') found on north-facing Santa Cruz Island slopes and in the California Coast Ranges from Santa Barbara County north to Mendocino C ...
'' — Shreve oak, Santa Cruz Island oak — # coastal California
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Quercus palustris
''Quercus palustris'', the pin oak or swamp Spanish oak, is a tree in the red oak section (''Quercus'' sect. ''Lobatae'') of the genus ''Quercus''. Pin oak is one of the most commonly used landscaping oaks in its native range due to its ease of ...
'' — pin oak — eastern North America
* '' Quercus phellos'' — willow oak — eastern North America
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Quercus pinnativenulosa
''Quercus pinnativenulosa'' is a species of oak endemic to Mexico.
Description
''Quercus pinnativenulosa'' is a tree which grows from 10 to 15 meters tall, and occasionally to 20 meters.
The species is part of the '' Quercus laurina'' group of o ...
Quercus potosina
''Quercus potosina'' is a species of oak. It is native to northern Mexico, from Chihuahua, Durango, and Jalisco east as far as San Luis Potosí. It is placed in ''Quercus'' section ''Quercus''.
Description
''Quercus potosina'' is a shrub or s ...
'' — Mexico
* '' Quercus pumila'' — runner oak — # southeastern North America
* '' Quercus radiata'' — Mexico (southern
Sierra Madre Occidental
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Costa Rica
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,
Panama
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Quercus rubra
''Quercus rubra'', the northern red oak, is an oak tree in the red oak group (''Quercus'' section ''Lobatae''). It is a native of North America, in the eastern and central United States and southeast and south-central Canada. It has been intro ...
'' — northern red oak — eastern North America
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Quercus rubramenta
''Quercus salicifolia'' is a species of oak. It is native to central and southern Mexico and Central America, from Jalisco to Panama.
Description
''Quercus salicifolia'' is a tree up to tall, with a trunk up to in diameter. The leaves are narr ...
Quercus sartorii
''Quercus sartorii'' is a species of oak tree known by the common name of Sartors oak. It is native to central and southern Mexico from Veracruz, San Luis Potosi, Hidalgo, Puebla, Oaxaca to Tamaulipas
Tamaulipas (), officially the Free and ...
Quercus tarahumara
''Quercus tarahumara'' (also called Tarahumara oak) is a species of tree in the beech family. It grows in the Sierra Madre Occidental in the Mexican States of Chihuahua, Sonora, Durango, and Sinaloa. Some of the populations lie within the territo ...
'' — Mexico
* '' Quercus tardifolia'' — lateleaf oak — # two small clumps in Chisos Mountains of Texas
* '' Quercus texana'' — Nuttall's oak — south central North America (Lower
Mississippi River
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Quercus velutina
''Quercus velutina'', the black oak, is a species of oak in the red oak group (''Quercus'' sect. ''Lobatae''), native and widespread in eastern and central North America. It is sometimes called the eastern black oak.
''Quercus velutina'' was p ...
'' — black oak or eastern black oak or dyer's oak — eastern North America
* ''
Quercus viminea
''Quercus viminea'', the Sonoran oak, or Mexican willow oak, is a North American species of oak. It is native to northwestern and west-central Mexico (Sonora, Chihuahua, Sinaloa, Durango, Nayarit, Jalisco), primarily in the Sierra Madre Occident ...
'' — # Mexico
* '' Quercus wislizeni'' — interior live oak — # California
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Quercus xalapensis
''Quercus xalapensis'', or xalapa oak, is a species of oak in the red oak group (''Quercus'' section ''Lobatae''). It is native to the mountains of eastern and southern Mexico, as well as Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua in northern Central Ame ...
'' — Mexico, Central America
Subgenus ''Cerris''
Section ''Cerris''
Europe, Asia, north Africa. Styles long; acorns mature in 18 months, very bitter, inside of acorn shell hairless or slightly hairy.
* '' Quercus acutissima'' Carruth. — sawtooth oak — # China (including Tibet), Korea, Japan,
Indochina
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, the Himalayas (Nepal, Bhutan, northeastern India).
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Quercus afares
''Quercus afares'', the African oak, is a species of oak native to Algeria and Tunisia. It has a very limited distribution in the coastal mountains of the eastern Tell Atlas in Algeria, and the Mogod- Kroumerie region of northwestern Tunisia. '' ...
'' Pomel — African oak — North Africa
* '' Quercus brandisiana'' Kurz Upland Indochina, Bangladesh
* ''
Quercus brantii
''Quercus brantii'', the Brant's oak, is a species of oak native to Western Asia, namely in Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey.
''Quercus brantii'' (covering more than 50% of the Zagros Mountains forest steppe
The Zagros Mountains forest ste ...
'' — Persian oak — southwestern Asia
* '' Quercus castaneifolia'' — chestnut-leaved oak — Caucasus, Iran (Persia)
* '' Quercus cerris'' — Turkey oak — southern Europe, southwestern Asia
* '' Quercus chenii'' Nakai — SE China
* '' Quercus floribunda'' — Moru oak — # Himalayas
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Quercus ithaburensis
''Quercus ithaburensis'', the Mount Tabor oak, is a tree in the beech family.
It is found in Southeastern Europe, from southeastern Italy, southern Albania and Greece, and in southwestern Asia from Turkey south through Lebanon, Israel, Syria, ...
'' — Mount Tabor's oak — southeastern Europe, southwestern Asia
* ''
Quercus libani
''Quercus libani'', the Lebanon oak, is a species of oak native to the eastern Mediterranean in western Asia, including in Lebanon, western Syria, northeastern Israel, eastern Turkey, and northern Iraq and Iran.
Description
''Quercus libani'' is ...
'' — Lebanon oak — southwestern Asia
* '' Quercus look'' Kotschy ''—'' Levant
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Quercus macrolepis
''Quercus macrolepis'', the Valonia oak, is a species of oak in the beech family, Fagaceae. Formerly, it was commonly treated as a subspecies of the closely related and sympatric mount Tabor oak. At present, however, it is mostly granted specie ...
'' — Vallonea oak — # southwestern Asia
* ''
Quercus miyagii
''Quercus miyagii'' is a species of oak native to the Ryukyu Islands
The , also known as the or the , are a chain of Japanese islands that stretch southwest from Kyushu to Taiwan: the Ōsumi, Tokara, Amami, Okinawa, and Sakishima Isla ...
Quercus suber
''Quercus suber'', commonly called the cork oak, is a medium-sized, evergreen oak tree in the section ''Quercus'' sect. ''Cerris''. It is the primary source of cork for wine bottle stoppers and other uses, such as cork flooring and as the core ...
'' — cork oak — # southwestern Europe, northwestern Africa
* '' Quercus trojana'' — Macedonian oak — # southeastern Europe
* '' Quercus variabilis'' — Chinese cork oak — eastern Asia
Section ''Ilex''
Eurasia and northern
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. Styles medium-long; acorns mature in 12–24 months, appearing hairy on the inside. Evergreen leaves, with bristle-like extensions on the teeth. (
Sister group
In phylogenetics, a sister group or sister taxon, also called an adelphotaxon, comprises the closest relative(s) of another given unit in an evolutionary tree.
Definition
The expression is most easily illustrated by a cladogram:
Taxon A and ...
to sect. ''Cerris'' and sometimes included in it)
*'' Quercus acrodonta'' — # China
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Quercus alnifolia
''Quercus alnifolia'', commonly known as the golden oak, is an evergreen oak species of Cyprus. Its common English name refers to the golden coloured lower surface of its leaves. ''Quercus alnifolia'' belongs to the endemic flora of the island a ...
'' — golden oak — # Cyprus
*'' Quercus aquifolioides'' Rehder & E.H.Wilson — # China (including Tibet)
* '' Quercus calliprinos'' — Palestine oak — # southwestern Asia
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Quercus coccifera
''Quercus coccifera'', the kermes oak, is an oak bush in the '' Ilex'' section of the genus. It is native to the Mediterranean region and Northern African Maghreb, south to north from Morocco to France and west to east from Portugal to ...
Quercus ilex
''Quercus ilex'', the evergreen oak, holly oak or holm oak is a large evergreen oak native to the Mediterranean region. It is a member of the '' Ilex'' section of the genus, with acorns that mature in a single summer.
Description
An evergre ...
'' — holly oak or holm oak — # southern Europe
* ''Quercus rotundifolia'' — ballota oak or holm oak — # Iberian peninsula, northwestern Africa
* '' Quercus semecarpifolia'' — brown oak or Kharshu oak — # Himalayas
* '' Quercus spinosa'' # — China, Myanmar
Section ''Cyclobalanopsis''
The ring-cupped oaks (synonym genus ''Cyclobalanopsis''). Eastern and southeastern Asia. Acorns with distinctive cups bearing concrescent rings of scales; they commonly also have densely clustered acorns, though this does not apply to all of the species. About 150 species.
; Selected species
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Quercus acuta
''Quercus acuta'', the Japanese evergreen oak, is an oak native to Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and China's Guizhou Province and Guangdong Province.
Description
Due to its foliage and habitat, it looks rather unlike most other oaks. ''Quercus ac ...
'' — Japanese evergreen oak. # Japan,
Korea
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Himalayas
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endemic
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Malaysia
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,
Indonesia
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Quercus argyrotricha
''Quercus argyrotricha'' is a rare Chinese species of trees in the beech family. It has been found only in Guizhou
Guizhou (; formerly Kweichow) is a landlocked province in the southwest region of the People's Republic of China. Its capi ...
'' — #
Guizhou
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(China)
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Quercus asymmetrica
''Quercus asymmetrica'' is the accepted name of an endemic oak tree species in the Asian sub-genus of ' ring-cupped oaks' and the family Fagaceae. It is found in China (specifically, Guangxi Province and Hainan Province, where it is called 托� ...
Vietnam
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Thailand
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endemic
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Taiwan
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Quercus daimingshanensis
''Quercus daimingshanensis'' is a rare Asian species of trees in the beech family. It has been found only in a small region of southern China, in the Daming Shan region of the Province of Guangxi. It is placed in subgenus ''Cerris'', section ...
endemic
Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found else ...
Fujian
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Afghanistan
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to Japan and Vietnam
* '' Quercus gomeziana'' A.Camus — # Vietnam
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Quercus helferiana
''Quercus helferiana'' is a species of tree in the family Fagaceae and the " ring-cupped oak" sub-genus. It is native to Vietnam, Thailand, Laos, Myanmar, India (northeast), and southern China ( Yunnan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou).
Descript ...
'' — # China, India,
Burma
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Kyūshū
is the third-largest island of Japan's five main islands and the most southerly of the four largest islands ( i.e. excluding Okinawa). In the past, it has been known as , and . The historical regional name referred to Kyushu and its surround ...
(Japan)
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Quercus hypophaea
''Quercus hypophaea'' is an uncommon species of tree in the beech family Fagaceae
The Fagaceae are a family of flowering plants that includes beeches, chestnuts and oaks, and comprises eight genera with about 927 species. Fagaceae in temper ...
Quercus kerrii
''Quercus kerrii'' is an uncommon Asian species of tree in the family Fagaceae. It is native to Thailand and Vietnam. There are also populations in southern China that according to some authors belong to ''Q. kerrii'' but considered by others to ...
Himalayas
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Quercus lanata
''Quercus lanata'', the woolly-leaved oak, is a species of ''Quercus'' native to southern and southeastern Asia, including India (from eastern Uttarakhand to Arunachal Pradesh), Bhutan, Nepal, Indochina (Vietnam, Myanmar, northern Thailand), and ...
Cambodia
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Borneo
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Yunnan
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Sabah
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and
Sarawak
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(Malaysia),
Palawan
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(
Philippines
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* hil, Republ ...
Quercus motuoensis
''Quercus motuoensis'' is an uncommon Asian species of trees in the beech family Fagaceae
The Fagaceae are a family of flowering plants that includes beeches, chestnuts and oaks, and comprises eight genera with about 927 species. Fagaceae i ...
Quercus myrsinifolia
''Quercus myrsinifolia'' is an Asian species of tree in the ring-cupped oaks subgenus of the family Fagaceae. It has several common names, including bamboo-leaf oak, Chinese evergreen oak, and Chinese ring-cupped oak. Its Chinese name is ; pinyi ...
Assam
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, Myanmar, China,
Bhutan
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,
Nepal
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सङ्घीय लोकतान्त्रिक गणतन्त्र नेपाल ), is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is ma ...
endemic
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endemic
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)
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Quercus salicina
''Quercus salicina'' is an oak species found in Japan, South Korea and Taiwan. It is placed in subgenus ''Cerris'', section ''Cyclobalanopsis''.
The larvae of the Japanese oakblue (''Arhopala japonica''), of ''Acrocercops vallata'' and ''Marumb ...
'' — # Japan,
South Korea
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Quercus semiserrata
''Quercus semiserrata'' is an Asian species of trees in the beech family Fagaceae. It has been found in northeastern India, Bangladesh
Bangladesh (}, ), officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh, is a country in South Asia. It is ...
'' — # China,
Bangladesh
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, India, Myanmar, Thailand
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Quercus sessilifolia
''Quercus sessilifolia'' is an Asian species of trees in the beech family Fagaceae
The Fagaceae are a family of flowering plants that includes beeches, chestnuts and oaks, and comprises eight genera with about 927 species. Fagaceae in tempe ...
Yunnan
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(China)
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Quercus stenophylloides
''Quercus stenophylloides'', also called Arisan oak, is a species of evergreen, broad-leaf tree endemic to Taiwan.
Description
''Quercus stenophylloides'' can grow up to 15 m(49 ft) tall, with trunks up to 40 cm(16 in) wide. The ...
Sumatra
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,
Borneo
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Quercus yingjiangensis
''Quercus yingjiangensis'' is an uncommon Asian species of trees in the beech family. It has been found only in southwestern China in the Province of Yunnan
Yunnan , () is a landlocked province in the southwest of the People's Republic ...
* Ohwi, J. ''Flora of Japan'', 1984.
* Soepadmo, E., Julia, S., & Rusea G. Fagaceae. In ''Tree Flora of Sabah and Sarawak,'' Volume 3, 2006. Soepadmo, E., Saw, L.G. eds. Government of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Quercus
An oak is a tree or shrub in the genus ''Quercus'' (; Latin "oak tree") of the beech family, Fagaceae. There are approximately 500 extant species of oaks. The common name "oak" also appears in the names of species in related genera, notably ...
Quercus
An oak is a tree or shrub in the genus ''Quercus'' (; Latin "oak tree") of the beech family, Fagaceae. There are approximately 500 extant species of oaks. The common name "oak" also appears in the names of species in related genera, notably ...
Quercus
An oak is a tree or shrub in the genus ''Quercus'' (; Latin "oak tree") of the beech family, Fagaceae. There are approximately 500 extant species of oaks. The common name "oak" also appears in the names of species in related genera, notably ...