Introductory
SPECIES: Quercus velutina | Black Oak 



ABBREVIATION : 
QUEVEL

SYNONYMS : 
   Quercus velutina var. missouriensis Sarg.
   Quercus leiodermis Ashe


SCS PLANT CODE : 
   QUVE


COMMON NAMES : 
   black oak
   yellow oak
   quercitron oak
   quercitron
   yellow-bark oak
   yellowbark oak
   yellow butt oak
   smooth-bark oak
   smoothbark oak


TAXONOMY : 
The currently accepted scientific name of black oak is Quercus velutina
Lam. [36].  It has been placed within the subgenus Erythrobalanus, or
red (black) oak group [51,56].  The following rarely used forms have
been distinguished on the basis of leaf lobe variation and pubescence
[61]:

     Q. v. f. macrophylla (Dippel) Trel.
     Q. v. f. dilanianta Trel.
     Q. v. f. pagodaeformis Trel.

There appears to be complete integration between the forms [61].  Some
northern populations of black oak in the Lower Peninsula of Michigan
have smaller acorns with less cup cover, lighter inner bark, smaller
winter buds, and a more branching growth form than populations in
southern Indiana [56].  Voss [64] suggests that these may be hybrids
between black oak and northern red oak (Q. rubra) or scarlet oak (Q.
coccinea).

Black oak hybridizes with the following species [36,56]:

  x Q. coccinea (scarlet oak):  Q. X fontana Laughlin
  x Q. ellipsoidalis (northern pin oak):  Q. X palaeolithicola Trel.
  x Q. falcata (southern red oak):  Q. X willdenowiana (Dippel) Zabel
                                    Q. X pinetorum Moldenke
  x Q. ilicifolia (bear oak):  Q. X rehderi Trel.
  x Q. imbricaria (shingle oak):  Q. X leana Nutt.
  x Q. incana (bluejack oak):  Q. X podophylla Trel.
  x Q. marilandica (blackjack oak):  Q. X bushii Sarg.
  x Q. nigra (water oak):  Q. X demarei Ashe
  x Q. palustris (pin oak):  Q. X vaga Palmer & Steyerm.
  x Q. phellos (willow oak):  Q. X filialis Little
  x Q. rubra (northern red oak):  Q. X hawkinsiae Sudw.
  x Q. shumardii (Shumard oak):  Q. X discreta Laughlin


LIFE FORM : 
Tree

FEDERAL LEGAL STATUS : 
No special status

OTHER STATUS : 
NO-ENTRY


COMPILED BY AND DATE : 
Jennifer H. Carey, November 1992


LAST REVISED BY AND DATE : 
NO-ENTRY


AUTHORSHIP AND CITATION : 
Carey, Jennifer H. 1992. Quercus velutina. In: Remainder of Citation

Related categories for Species: Quercus velutina | Black Oak