Quercus laceyi
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Q. laceyi
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Quercus laceyi Small 1901
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Quercus laceyi, the Lacey oak, is a small to medium-size deciduous oak tree which is native to northeastern Mexico (Coahuila and Nuevo León) and to the Texas Hill Country in central Texas in the United States.[2][3]
Quercus laceyi seldom grows more than 35 feet (11 meters) tall, and has a stocky trunk. Its blue-green leaves are oblong and shallowly lobed to unlobed, but shade leaves can be deeply lobed; they most often turn yellow or brown in autumn.[2][4]
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Quercus laceyi has been often confused with Quercus glaucoides, which is an evergreen oak native to central and southern Mexico.[3]
References
- ↑ The Plant List, Quercus laceyi Small
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Flora of North America: Quercus laceyi
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Nixon, K. C. and C. H. Muller. 1992. The taxonomic resurrection of Quercus laceyi Small (Fagaceae). Sida 15: 57-69.
- ↑ Small, John Kunkel 1901. Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club 28(6): 358
External links
- Texas A&M University, "Lacey Oak Is A Real Texas Lady"
- photo of herbarium specimen collected in Nuevo León in 1996
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