identify rock chestnut oak Quercus montana

Formerly known as Quercus prinus. One of the ◼︎ white oaks.

Part of oak genus Quercus in beech / oak family Fagaceae in bayberry / beech / birch / oak / walnut order Fagales.

Native to central and eastern 🇺🇸 USA. 🗺 Map by county (🇺🇸 USA-48) (color key).

Uses by native peoples
(Ethnobotany database) Leaves and acorns ☠︎ toxic[?] to humans, although many cultures process acorns to remove their tannins, making acorns an important staple food.

Quercus hosts caterpillars of 534 species
of butterflies and moths, in some areas. This plant is also known to be a host for (in areas where invasive) 🐝︎ spotted lanternfly (SLF) Lycorma delicatula.

If your oak is growing a few meters (yards) from a potential parent tree, its acorn probably fell there or was planted by a squirrel family Sciuridae.

If your oak is growing a kilometer (mile) away from a potential parent tree, its acorn was probably planted by a 🐦︎ jay family Corvidae, with whom it coevolved.

— That and lots more interesting information in interview "Our Most Essential Trees: The Nature of Oaks, with Doug Tallamy" The joe gardener Show. 2021-04-29 or its 🔊︎ audio

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