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|accepted_name=Quercus phellos
|accepted_authority=Linnaeus
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sp. Pl.
|place=2: 994. 1753
|year=1753
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|common_names=Willow oak
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=W1
|label=
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|code=E
|label=Endemic
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|code=F
|label=Illustrated
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|hierarchy=Fagaceae;Quercus;Quercus sect. Lobatae;Quercus phellos
|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 phellos]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 3
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Trees,</b> deciduous, to 30 m. <b>Bark</b> dark gray and smooth, becoming darker and irregularly fissured with age, inner bark light orange. <b>Twigs</b> reddish brown, 1-2 mm diam., glabrous. <b>Terminal</b> buds chestnut brown, ovoid, 2-4 mm, apex acute, glabrous. <b>Leaves</b>: petiole 2-4(-6) mm, glabrous, rarely sparsely hairy. <b>Leaf</b> blade linear to narrowly elliptic, usually widest near middle, 50-120 × 10-25 mm, base acute, margins entire with 1 apical awn, apex acute; surfaces abaxially pale green, glabrous, rarely softly pubescent, adaxially light green, glabrous. <b>Acorns</b> biennial; cup shallowly saucer-shaped, 3-6.5 mm high × 7.5-11 mm wide, covering 1/4-1/3 nut, outer surface puberulent, inner surface light brown, pubescent, scale tips tightly appressed, acute; nut ovoid to hemispheric, 8-12 × 6.5-10 mm, often striate, glabrate, scar diam. 4.5-6 mm.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering spring.
|habitat=Of bottomland flood plains, also on stream banks, dunes, and terraces, and, occasionally, on poorly drained uplands
|elevation=0-400 m
|distribution=Ala.;Ark.;Del.;D.C.;Fla.;Ga.;Ill.;Ky.;La.;Md.;Miss.;Mo.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;Okla.;Pa.;S.C.;Tenn.;Tex.;Va.
|discussion=<p>Individual trees with leaves softly pubescent abaxially may be classified as <i>Quercus phellos</i> forma intonsa Fernald; however, such leaves are known to occur on second-flush shoots from twigs bearing typical leaves.</p><!--
--><p><i>Quercus phellos</i> reportedly hybridizes with <i>Q. coccinea</i> (W. W. Ashe 1894); with <i>Q. ilicifolia</i> (= Q. ×giffordi Trelease) and <i>Q. incana</i> (E. J. Palmer 1948); and with <i>Q. marilandica</i>, <i>Q. nigra</i>, <i>Q. pagoda</i> (= Q. ×ludoviciana Sargent), <i>Q. palustris</i>, <i>Q. rubra</i>, <i>Q. shumardii</i>, and <i>Q. velutina</i>. D. M. Hunt (1989) cited evidence of hybridization also with <i>Q. hemisphaerica</i>, <i>Q. imbricaria</i>, <i>Q. laurifolia</i>, and <i>Q. pumila</i>.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Quercus phellos
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Fagaceae
|phenology=Flowering spring.
|habitat=Of bottomland flood plains, also on stream banks, dunes, and terraces, and, occasionally, on poorly drained uplands
|elevation=0-400 m
|distribution=Ala.;Ark.;Del.;D.C.;Fla.;Ga.;Ill.;Ky.;La.;Md.;Miss.;Mo.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;Okla.;Pa.;S.C.;Tenn.;Tex.;Va.
|reference=None
|publication title=Sp. Pl.
|publication year=1753
|special status=W1;Endemic;Illustrated
|source xml=https://bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation/src/2e0870ddd59836b60bcf96646a41e87ea5a5943a/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V3/V3_947.xml
|genus=Quercus
|section=Quercus sect. Lobatae
|species=Quercus phellos
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