Pin Oak

(Quercus palustris)

Family: Fagaceae

Phylum: Anthophyta

CSU TREE MAP ITEM #9

 

Distribution

Mainly distributed in the eastern and central United States from Connecticut west to eastern Kansas, and south to Georgia, west to eastern Oklahoma and Kansas. It is also native in the extreme south of Ontario, Canada.

By Elbert L. Little, Jr., U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, and others - USGS Geosciences and Environmental Change Science Center, Digital Representations of Tree Species Range Maps from "Atlas of United States Trees" by Elbert L. Little, Jr. (and other publications), Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=29090993

Leaves

CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=17070

Flowering

By Famartin [CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)], from Wikimedia Commons

Fruit

By Philmarin - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=18007779

Questions

Using the bark descriptors given in the handout, describe the type of bark this tree has.

What other structures would help you know that this tree belongs in the Oak family?