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Photographer: Kenneth J. Sytsma
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Family Fagaceae
Quercus muhlenbergii Engelm.
chinkapin oak, chinquapin oak, yellow oak
Quercus: Latin for oak
muhlenbergii: for Gotthilf Henry Ernest Muhlenberg (1753-1815), Luthern pastor in Pennsylvania, distinguished American amateur botanist
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| Status: | Special Concern |
| Plant: | perennial, deciduous tree to 98' tall, on drier sites sometimes merely a large shrub; gray, thin, flaky to papery bark |
| Flower: | brown to red-brown, roundish buds; flowers late winter into spring |
| Fruit: | 1-2 acorns with or without stalks, semi-circular or shallow cup covering 1/4-1/2 of the nut; light brown, oblong to oval nut |
| Leaf: | usually obovate but sometimes lance-like to rounded lance-like in outline, leathery, base blunt to slightly pointed, edges ruffled, toothed to shallowly lobed; underside smooth or light green, upper side dark shiny green |
| Habitat: | mixed woodlands and thickets, often on N-facing slopes; in limestone and calcareous soils |
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