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MOR Quercus rubra L. 174465
Cultivated Plants of The Morton Arboretum

DuPage Co., Lisle, IL 60532 USA

FAGACEAE TRUE

Quercus rubra L.

(Northern Red Oak)

Plant Accession: #538-82*4 seed

Source: Seed wild collected by The Morton Arboretum from above Sauk Lake in Sauk Trail Forest Preserve, Cook County, Illinois, U.S.A.

Location: Appalachia CC-73/85-96

Tree is 25 feet tall and 15 feet wide with one trunk near ground level. DBH~ 5.1 cm. Trunk bark is slightly fissured and brownish gray. This year's growth is green. Previous year's growth is brownish gray.

Marlene Hahn, Elsa M. Meza, Kathy Stephens

#IL-MOR-MH85

May 17, 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.