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|accepted_name=Quercus pumila
|accepted_authority=Walter
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Fl. Carol.,
|place=234. 1788
|year=1788
}}
|common_names=Runner oak
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
}}{{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Selected by author to be illustrated
}}{{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=W
|label=Weedy
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Fagaceae;Quercus;Quercus sect. Lobatae;Quercus pumila
|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 pumila]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 3
|mention_page=
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Shrubs,</b> deciduous or tardily deciduous, to 1 m. <b>Bark</b> gray to dark brown. <b>Twigs</b> gray-brown to reddish brown, 1-2 mm diam., sparsely to uniformly pubescent. <b>Terminal</b> buds brown to red-brown, ovoid, 2.5-4.5 mm, glabrous or with ciliate scale margins. <b>Leaves</b>: petiole 1.5-4.5 mm, pubescent. <b>Leaf</b> blade oblong to narrowly obovate, 25-100 × 10-33 mm, base acute to rounded, margins entire, revolute, with 1 apical awn, apex acute or obtuse to rounded; surfaces abaxially uniformly gray-brown pubescent, rarely glabrate, adaxially somewhat convex, rugose, glabrous or with scattered hairs along midrib. <b>Acorns</b> annual; cup deeply saucer-shaped to turbinate, 5-12 mm high × 10-15 mm wide, covering 1/3-1/2(-2/3) nut, outer surface pubescent, inner surface densely pubescent, scales rarely involute, often tuberculate, tips tightly appressed, acute; nut globose to ovoid or broadly oblong, 9.5-15 × 9-12 mm, glabrate, scar diam. 5-8 mm.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering spring.
|habitat=Dry sandy soils of savannahs, low ridges and oak-pine scrub, occasionally at margins of poorly drained sites
|elevation=0-100 m
|distribution=Ala.;Fla.;Ga.;Miss.;N.C.;S.C.
|discussion=<p>Although no hybrid combinations have been formally proposed, D. M. Hunt (1989) has reported evidence of hybridization with Quercus hemisphaerica, Q. incana, Q. myrtifolia, and Q. phellos.</p>
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name=Quercus pumila
|author=
|authority=Walter
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Fagaceae
|phenology=Flowering spring.
|habitat=Dry sandy soils of savannahs, low ridges and oak-pine scrub, occasionally at margins of poorly drained sites
|elevation=0-100 m
|distribution=Ala.;Fla.;Ga.;Miss.;N.C.;S.C.
|reference=None
|publication title=Fl. Carol.,
|publication year=1788
|special status=Endemic;Selected by author to be illustrated;Weedy
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|genus=Quercus
|section=Quercus sect. Lobatae
|species=Quercus pumila
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