Michigan Trees: A Handbook of the Native and Most Important Introduced Species

by Charles Herbert Otis

4. Flowering branchlet, × 1/2.

5. Staminate flower, enlarged.

6. Pistillate flower, enlarged.

7. Fruit, × 1.

FAGACEAE

Shingle Oak

Quercus imbricaria Michx.

HABIT.—A tree 40-50 feet high, with a trunk diameter of 1-2 feet; forming a rather open, rounded crown of slender, horizontal branches.

LEAVES.—Alternate, simple, 4-6 inches long, 1-2 inches broad; oblong-lanceolate to oblong-obovate; entire or somewhat undulate; thin, very lustrous, dark green above, paler and pubescent beneath; petioles stout, pubescent, 1/2 inch long.