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Photographer: Paul Drobot
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Family Fagaceae
Quercus palustris Münchh.
pin oak
Quercus: Latin for oak
palustris: "of marshes"
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| Status: | Special Concern |
| Plant: | perennial, deciduous tree to 80' tall; grayish brown bark with wide, shallow fissures, inner bark pinkish |
| Flower: | brown to reddish brown, terminal, oval buds; blooms in spring |
| Fruit: | acorns biennial; thin, saucer-shaped cup covering 1/4 of the nut; round to oval nut often with obvious stripes |
| Leaf: | elliptic to oblong in outline, base blunt to slightly pointed; edges with 5-7 lobes and 10-30 sharp points, lowest 2 lobes somewhat recurved |
| Habitat: | moist to wet; bottomlands, poorly drained upland clay soils |
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