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|accepted_name=Quercus imbricaria
|accepted_authority=Michaux
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Hist. Chênes Amér., no.
|place=9, plates 15, 16. 1801
|year=1801
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|common_names=Shingle oak
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
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|code=F
|label=Selected by author to be illustrated
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|hierarchy=Fagaceae;Quercus;Quercus sect. Lobatae;Quercus imbricaria
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Fagaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Quercus]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>section</small>[[Quercus sect. Lobatae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Quercus imbricaria]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 3
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Trees,</b> deciduous, to 20 m. <b>Bark</b> grayish brown, fissures and ridges shallow, inner bark pinkish. <b>Twigs</b> greenish brown to brown, 1.5-3(-4) mm diam., glabrous or sparsely pubescent. <b>Terminal</b> buds brown to reddish brown, ovoid, 3-6 mm, distinctly 5-angled in cross section, scales minutely ciliate on margins. <b>Leaves</b>: petiole 10-20 mm, glabrous. <b>Leaf</b> blade ovate or elliptic to obovate, usually widest near middle, 80-200 × 15-75 mm, base obtuse to cuneate, occasionally rounded, margins entire with 1 apical awn, apex acute to obtuse; surfaces abaxially uniformly pubescent, adaxially lustrous, glabrous. <b>Acorns</b> biennial; cup deeply saucer-shaped to cup-shaped, 5-9 mm high × 10-18 mm wide, covering 1/3-1/2 nut, outer surface puberulent, inner surface light brown to reddish brown and glabrous or with a few hairs around nut scar, scale tips tightly appressed, acute; nut ovoid to subglobose, 9-18 × 10-18 mm, often striate, having 1 or more indistinct rings of minute pits at apex, glabrate, scar diam. 5-9 mm. <b>2n</b> = 24.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering spring.
|habitat=Moderately dry to mesic slopes and uplands, occasionally in ravines and bottoms
|elevation=100-700 m
|distribution=Ark.;Del.;D.C.;Ill.;Ind.;Iowa;Kans.;Ky.;La.;Md.;Mich.;Mo.;N.J.;N.C.;Ohio;Pa.;Tenn.;Tex.;Va.;W.Va.
|discussion=<p>The wood of <i>Quercus imbricaria</i> was once an important source of shingles, hence its common name.</p><!--
--><p>The Cherokee used the bark of <i>Quercus imbricaria</i> to treat indigestion, chronic dysentery, mouth sores, chapped skin, general sores, chills and fevers, lost voice, milky urine, and as an antiseptic and a general tonic (D. E. Moerman 1986).</p><!--
--><p>This species reportedly hybridizes with <i>Q. coccinea</i> (W. H. Wagner Jr. and D. J. Schoen 1976); with <i>Q. falcata</i> (producing Q. ×anceps E. J. Palmer) and <i>Q. ilicifolia</i> (D. M. Hunt 1989); with <i>Q. marilandica</i>, <i>Q. palustris</i>, and <i>Q. phellos</i> (H. A. Gleason 1952); and with <i>Q. rubra</i>, <i>Q. shumardii</i>, and <i>Q. velutina</i>.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Quercus imbricaria
|author=
|authority=Michaux
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Fagaceae
|phenology=Flowering spring.
|habitat=Moderately dry to mesic slopes and uplands, occasionally in ravines and bottoms
|elevation=100-700 m
|distribution=Ark.;Del.;D.C.;Ill.;Ind.;Iowa;Kans.;Ky.;La.;Md.;Mich.;Mo.;N.J.;N.C.;Ohio;Pa.;Tenn.;Tex.;Va.;W.Va.
|reference=None
|publication title=Hist. Chênes Amér., no.
|publication year=1801
|special status=Endemic;Selected by author to be illustrated
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|genus=Quercus
|section=Quercus sect. Lobatae
|species=Quercus imbricaria
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