Quercus rubra L.

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FAGACEAE Quercus rubra L.
Large open-grown tree, 14 m. tall, 1 m. in diameter. Bark hard, furrowed, the young branches smooth and gray, the tops of the long longitudinal ridges flat-topped and also persistently smooth.
About half of this year's crop of acorns has fallen to the ground.
On SW-facing slope, formerly pastured but now brushy and growing up with saplings of species from nearby forest, Juglans nigra, Carya ovata, C. cordiformis, Populus grandidentata, Quercus alba.
WISCONSIN: Richland Co., 3 miles SE of Richland Center. T 10 N; R 1 E; NW¿SW¿ sec. 25.	alt. 275 m.
Coll.: M. Nee
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Sept. 18, 1979
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