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Carolina to Florida, on dunes at low elevations;

reaches 15 m tall, but more often occurs as a scrubby shrub not exceeding 3 m;

2-9 x 1.2-4 cm; semi-evergreen; oblong to oboval; apex with a rounded lobe; base cuneate; margins wavy, sometimes remotely lobed near apex, often entire; lustrous dark green above; paler beneath, with minute tomentum at first, becoming more or less glabrescent; petiole 1-4 mm, slightly hairy;

acorn 1.5-1.9 cm; ovoid; brown when mature; sessile; singly or paired; enclosed 1/2 or mor by deep, warty cupule; maturing first year;

male flowers at end of branchlets, on 7-12 cm catkins; in late winter to early spring;

a little tender (may withstand -15°C); prefers sandy soils; slow growing; inhabits sandy, bushy sites;

– A. Camus : n° 276 ; – Sub-genus Quercus, Section Quercus, Series Stellatae; – Alvin Chapman (1809-1899) = physician and botanist of Florida, the first to describe this species; – Hybridizes with Q.minima (= x rolfsii )