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|accepted_name=Quercus incana
|accepted_authority=W. Bartram
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Travels Carolina,
|place=378. 1791
|year=1791
}}
|common_names=Bluejack 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={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Species
|authority=Michaux
}}
|hierarchy=Fagaceae;Quercus;Quercus sect. Lobatae;Quercus incana
|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 incana]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 3
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Trees,</b> deciduous, to 10 m. <b>Bark</b> dark brown to black with square plates. <b>Twigs</b> brown to reddish brown, 1-2.5 mm diam., tomentose to sparsely pubescent. <b>Terminal</b> buds light brown to reddish brown, narrowly ovoid to conic, 3.5-7 mm, distinctly 5-angled in cross section, scales pubescent, often tuft of reddish or silvery hairs at apex. <b>Leaves</b>: petiole 2-8(-10) mm, tomentose. <b>Leaf</b> blade narrowly ovate or elliptic to obovate, usually widest near middle, planar, 30-100 × 12-35 mm, base acute (rarely attenuate) to rounded, margins entire, with 1 apical awn (leaves on juvenile or 2d-flush growth may have 2-3 shallow lobes and 3-5 awns), apex acute or obtuse, rarely rounded; surfaces abaxially densely tomentose, hairs in vein axils often reddish, easily distinguished from others, adaxially often glossy, sparsely pubescent, especially along midrib and near base, veins often raised. <b>Acorns</b> biennial; cup saucer-shaped to bowl-shaped, 4.5-8 mm high × 10-18 mm wide, covering 1/4-1/3(-1/2) nut, outer surface pubescent or puberulent, inner surface uniformly pubescent, scale tips tightly appressed, obtuse or acute; nut ovoid (rarely subglobose) to broadly ellipsoid, 10-17 × 10-16 mm, occasionally striate, glabrate, scar diam. 5.5-10.5 mm.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering spring.
|habitat=Well-drained sandy soils of barrens, hammocks, dunes, and upland ridges
|elevation=0-250 m
|distribution=Ala.;Ark.;Fla.;Ga.;La.;Miss.;N.C.;Okla.;S.C.;Tex.;Va.
|discussion=<p>Quercus incana reportedly hybridizes with Q. falcata [= Q. ×subintegra (Engelmann) Trelease], Q. hemisphaerica (D. M. Hunt 1989), Q. laurifolia (= Q. ×atlantica Ashe), Q. laevis (= Q. ×asheana Little), Q. marilandica (= Q. ×cravenensis Little), Q. nigra (= Q. ×caduca Trelease), and Q. phellos (E. J. Palmer 1948); with Q. pumila (D. M. Hunt 1989); and with Q. velutina (= Q. ×podophylla Trelease), and questionably, Q. myrtifolia.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Quercus incana
|author=
|authority=W. Bartram
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=Species
|basionyms=
|family=Fagaceae
|phenology=Flowering spring.
|habitat=Well-drained sandy soils of barrens, hammocks, dunes, and upland ridges
|elevation=0-250 m
|distribution=Ala.;Ark.;Fla.;Ga.;La.;Miss.;N.C.;Okla.;S.C.;Tex.;Va.
|reference=None
|publication title=Travels Carolina,
|publication year=1791
|special status=Endemic;Selected by author to be illustrated;Weedy
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/9216fc802291cd3df363fd52122300479582ede7/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V3/V3_966.xml
|genus=Quercus
|section=Quercus sect. Lobatae
|species=Quercus incana
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