''Quercus sadleriana'' is a species of oak known by the common names Sadler's oak and deer oak. It is native to southwestern

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and far northern

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in the

Klamath Mountains The Klamath Mountains are a rugged and lightly populated mountain range in northwestern California and southwestern Oregon in the western United States. As a mountain system within both the greater Pacific Coast Ranges and the California Coast ...

. It grows in coniferous forests. It is placed in section ''Ponticae''.

Description

''Quercus sadleriana'' is an

evergreen In botany, an evergreen is a plant which has foliage that remains green and functional through more than one growing season. This also pertains to plants that retain their foliage only in warm climates, and contrasts with deciduous plants, which ...

shrub growing tall from a root network with rhizomes. The leaves are reminiscent of

chestnut The chestnuts are the deciduous trees and shrubs in the genus ''Castanea'', in the beech family Fagaceae. They are native to temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere. The name also refers to the edible nuts they produce. The unrelate ...

leaves, oval with toothed edges and rounded, faintly pointed ends. The fruit is an

acorn The acorn, or oaknut, is the nut of the oaks and their close relatives (genera '' Quercus'' and ''Lithocarpus'', in the family Fagaceae). It usually contains one seed (occasionally two seeds), enclosed in a tough, leathery shell, and bo ...

with a cap between wide and a spherical or egg-shaped, round-ended nut up to long.Brown, Robert (of Campster). 1871. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, series 4, volume 7: 249-250
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sadleriana ''Sadleriana'' is a genus of small freshwater snails, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Hydrobiidae. Species Species within the genus ''Sadleriana'' include: * ''Sadleriana bavarica'' Boeters, 1989 * ''Sadleriana bulgarica'' (A. J. ...

Flora of the West Coast of the United States Flora of the Klamath Mountains Plants described in 1871 Flora without expected TNC conservation status {{Quercus-stub