Quercus cerrisL.

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WFO wfo-0000290053 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Quercus cerris, photographed by Patrick Hacker
fig. a Patrick Hacker, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-08 / obs. 205098912
Quercus cerris, photographed by Andrew Skotnicki
fig. b Andrew Skotnicki, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204043100
Quercus cerris, photographed by Stephen James McWilliam
fig. c Stephen James McWilliam, CC0 1.0 / obs. 201680106
Quercus cerris, photographed by Stephen James McWilliam
fig. d Stephen James McWilliam, CC0 1.0 / obs. 201825137
Quercus cerris, photographed by Gabriel Mayrhofer
fig. e Gabriel Mayrhofer, CC0 1.0 / obs. 202197130
Quercus cerris, photographed by Alan Young
fig. f Alan Young, CC0 1.0 / obs. 196712195
Quercus cerris, photographed by Stephen James McWilliam
fig. g Stephen James McWilliam, CC0 1.0 / obs. 180693440
Quercus cerris, photographed by Stephen James McWilliam
fig. h Stephen James McWilliam, CC0 1.0 / obs. 179528996

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Native range 17 botanical countries

Regions where Quercus cerris is native: East Aegean Is., Lebanon-Syria, Türkiye, Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, Czechia-Slovakia, France, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Kriti, NW. Balkan Pen., Romania, Sicilia, Switzerland, Türkiye-in-Europe East Aegean Is.Lebanon-SyriaTürkiyeAlbaniaAustriaBulgariaCzechia-SlovakiaFranceGreeceHungaryItalyKritiNW. Balkan Pen.RomaniaSiciliaSwitzerlandTürkiye-in-Europe
Native distribution of Quercus cerris, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Albania ALB EUROPE
Austria AUT
Bulgaria BUL
Czechia-Slovakia CZE
France FRA
Greece GRC
Hungary HUN
Italy ITA
Kriti KRI
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Romania ROM
Sicilia SIC
Switzerland SWI
Türkiye-in-Europe TUE
East Aegean Is. EAI ASIA-TEMPERATE
Lebanon-Syria LBS
Türkiye TUR

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 52 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Cerris australis Raf.
  • Cerris austriaca (Willd.) Raf.
  • Cerris crinita Raf.
  • Cerris paliphleos Raf.
  • Quercus aegilops Scop.
  • Quercus ambrozyana Simonk.
  • Quercus aspleniifolia hort. ex A.DC.
  • Quercus austriaca Willd.
  • Quercus cana hort. ex Steud.
  • Quercus cerris f. balatae Boros ex Mátyás
  • Quercus cerris f. basi-cuneata Mátyás
  • Quercus cerris f. cyclloloba Borbás
  • Quercus cerris f. laciniato-lyrata Mátyás
  • Quercus cerris f. lancifolia Georgescu & Morariu
  • Quercus cerris f. leviterlobata Mátyás
  • Quercus cerris f. macrophylla Georgescu & Morariu
  • Quercus cerris f. pendula (Neill) Asch. & Graebn.
  • Quercus cerris f. roborilobata Mátyás
  • Quercus cerris f. sinuato-lobata Mátyás
  • Quercus cerris f. verae-csapodyae Mátyás
  • Quercus cerris subsp. acuto-bipinnata Mátyás
  • Quercus cerris subsp. austriaca (Willd.) Nyman
  • Quercus cerris subsp. austriaca (Willd.) O.Schwarz
  • Quercus cerris subsp. tournefortii (Willd.) O.Schwarz

and 28 more.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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