Quercus similisAshe

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WFO wfo-0000293296 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 7 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 7 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Quercus similis, photographed by Terry Woodward
fig. a Terry Woodward, CC BY 4.0 / 2012-03-03 / obs. 11500207
Quercus similis, photographed by Terry Woodward
fig. b Terry Woodward, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 11500195
Quercus similis, photographed by John Kees
fig. c John Kees, CC0 1.0 / obs. 134980114
Quercus similis, photographed by John Michael
fig. d John Michael, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 102280032
Quercus similis, photographed by Alan Weakley
fig. e Alan Weakley, CC0 1.0 / obs. 101136945
Quercus similis, photographed by Laura Clark
fig. f Laura Clark, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 11512304
Quercus similis, photographed by Alan Weakley
fig. g Alan Weakley, CC0 1.0 / obs. 4253079
Quercus similis, photographed by Alan Weakley
fig. h Alan Weakley, CC0 1.0 / obs. 4249787

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Native range 9 botanical countries

Regions where Quercus similis is native: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas AlabamaArkansasFloridaGeorgiaLouisianaMississippiSouth CarolinaTennesseeTexas
Native distribution of Quercus similis, 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
Alabama ALA NORTHERN AMERICA
Arkansas ARK
Florida FLA
Georgia GEO
Louisiana LOU
Mississippi MSI
South Carolina SCA
Tennessee TEN
Texas TEX

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 8 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.

  • Quercus ashei Sterrett
  • Quercus margarettae var. paludosa Ashe
  • Quercus mississippiensis Ashe
  • Quercus stellata subsp. paludosa (Sarg.) A.E.Murray
  • Quercus stellata var. attenuata Sarg.
  • Quercus stellata var. mississippiensis (Ashe) Little
  • Quercus stellata var. paludosa Sarg.
  • Quercus stellata var. similis (Ashe) Sudw.

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.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.