Quercus phellos
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Britton & Brown |
| Botanical name: | Quercus phellos |
| Common name: | willow oak |
| Group: | dicot |
| Family: | Fagaceae |
| Growth type: | forb/herb |
| Duration: | perennial |
| Origin: | native |
| Plant height: | to 80' |
| Bark: | when young, smooth and gray; with age, darker with rough ridges and furrows |
| Leaves: | alternate, simple, willow-like leaves; margin is entire; bristle tipped |
| Flowering time: | monoecious, yellow green male catkins, females on axilliary spikes |
| Habitat: | bloom early to mid May; fruit matures September to November of second year |
| Range in New Jersey: | wet, poorly drained low ground |
| Heritage ranking, if any: | Coastal Plain outside of the Pine Barrens; north to Mercer and Middlesex counties (Hough) |
| Distribution: |  |
| Misc. | Stone, 1910, says, "A typical tree of the coastal plain crossing
the Delaware into Pennsylvania, but never passing west of the fall
line, and pushing up the Delaware only a very short distance above
Trenton".(408) |