Taxon: Quercus phellos L.

Common names:

• willow oak   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• pilek   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

Economic importance:

• Environmental: shade/shelter   (fide AH 519)
  
• Materials: wood   (timber fide Ency WTimber; AH 519)
  

More:

View phytochemical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

View ethnobotanical data from Moerman's Native American Ethnobotany Database

Distributional range:

• NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
  Northeastern U.S.A.: United States - New Jersey, New York [s.e.], Pennsylvania [s.e.]
  North-Central U.S.A.: United States - Illinois [s.], Missouri [s.e.], Oklahoma
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida [n.], Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia
  South-Central U.S.A.: United States - Texas

• also cultivated

References:

• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• Boutelje, J. B. 1980. Encyclopedia of world timbers, names and technical literature.
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
• Govaerts, R. & D. G. Frodin. 1998. World checklist and bibliography of Fagales.
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening.
• Jones, G. N. & G. D. Fuller. 1955. Vascular plants of Illinois.
• Kartesz, J. T. 1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland.
• Little, E. L., Jr. 1978. Important forest trees of the United States.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Quercus phellos.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Quercus phellos.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Quercus phellos.

Check other web resources for Quercus phellos L.:

• Flora of North America: Collaborative Floristic Effort of North American Botanists
• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• BONAP: North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Images:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.
• Fruit: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image

More:

• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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