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Photographer: Emmet J. Judziewicz
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Family Fagaceae
Quercus ellipsoidalis E.J.Hill
Hill's oak, northern pin oak
Quercus: Latin for oak
ellipsoidalis: elliptic-shaped
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| Status: | Native |
| Plant: | perennial, deciduous tree to 65' tall; lower trunk often having stubs of old branches; dark gray brown bark with shallow grooves, inner bark orangish |
| Flower: | dark reddish brown, terminal, oval buds obviously 5-angled in cross section; blooms in spring |
| Fruit: | acorns biennial; narrowly turban-like to deeply cup-shaped covering 1/3-1/2 of the nut; oblong to roundish nut usually not smooth, elliptic to oval, sometimes with 1 or more faint rings of pits around the tip |
| Leaf: | elliptic in outline, blunt to slightly pointed base, edges with 5-7 deep lobes and 15-55 sharp points, upper side shiny light green |
| Habitat: | dry sandy sites |
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