Cultivated Plants of The Morton Arboretum

DuPage Co., Lisle, IL 60532 USA

FAGACEAE

Quercus coccinea Münchh.

(Scarlet Oak)

Plant Accession: #1173-2004*5 seed

Source: Wild collected by Midwest Plant Collecting Collaborative (MWPCC) 2004 Ozark Expedition on west edge of Hawn State Park, St. Genevieve County, Missouri, U.S.A.

Location: Quercus G-99/92-96

Erect shaped tree 3 feet tall and 2.5 feet wide in good condition. Trunk bark is rough and reddish-gray/gray. This year's growth is greenish-red and smooth. Previous year's growth is gray and rough.

Joyce Beck, Evelyn Means, Laurie Glaysher

#IL-MOR-MH81

July 12, 2012

Phylogeny of the New World oaks: Diversification of an ecologically important clade

across the tropical-temperate divide. (2012-2015 NSF Grant, DEB 114648)

Photographer: Albrecht, William. Publisher: Albrecht, William.