Seasonal Interest and Photographs

Quercus lyrata
 
Overcup Oak

Flowers: Monoecious, pale, green-yellowish catkins in mid spring, subtly attractive.

Foliage: dark green, two small lower lobes, two larger central lobes.

Fruit: Large acorn, cap almost completely covers the acorn.

Trunk, Branching, Twigs: Bark similar to white oak.

 

Location: More common in the Arkansas river valley; there are some plants growing in the White River floodplain southeast of Fayetteville.

Photographs: Click on an image to see a larger version:

form foliage and acorns foliage and acorns

barkPhotographs courtesy of Jim Robbins.

 

 

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