{"id":3652,"date":"2011-12-19T13:58:05","date_gmt":"2011-12-19T23:58:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fireflyforest.com\/flowers\/?p=3652"},"modified":"2011-12-19T13:58:05","modified_gmt":"2011-12-19T23:58:05","slug":"quercus-gambelii-gambel-oak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fireflyforest.com\/flowers\/3652\/quercus-gambelii-gambel-oak\/","title":{"rendered":"Quercus gambelii – Gambel Oak"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Plant Name<\/p>\n

Scientific Name:<\/span> Quercus gambelii<\/em><\/p>\n

Common Names:<\/span> Gambel Oak, Gambel’s Oak<\/p>\n

Plant Characteristics<\/p>\n

Duration:<\/span> Perennial, Deciduous<\/p>\n

Growth Habit:<\/span> Tree, Shrub<\/p>\n

Arizona Native Status:<\/span> Native<\/p>\n

Habitat:<\/span> Upland, Mountain. This plant grows in oak and pine woodlands and canyons at middle to upper elevations in the mountains.<\/p>\n

Flower Color:<\/span> Inconspicuous (yellowish, greenish, and brownish)<\/p>\n

Flowering Season:<\/span> Spring<\/p>\n

Height:<\/span> Up to 40 feet (12 m) tall<\/p>\n

Description:<\/span> The plants are monoecious with separate male and female flowers on the same plant. The tiny female flowers are either solitary or clustered on small spikes in the leaf axils, while the small male flowers are in drooping catkins. The female flowers are followed by solitary or clustered, plump, egg-shaped to ellipsoid, hard-shelled, green maturing to light brown acorns enclosed in a rough, woody cupule or “cap”. The distinctive leaves are large, green, alternate, elliptic in shape, and shallowly to deeply pinnately lobed with large, round-tipped to subacute lobes. The leaves turn a golden yellow or yellow-orange color in the autumn. The bark is rough, scaly, grayish brown, and longitudinally fissured. The trunk and large branches are often a bit gnarled. The twigs are brown to red-brown in color and have brown buds.<\/p>\n

Special Characteristics<\/p>\n

Allergenic<\/span> – The flower pollen is a severe allergen.<\/p>\n

Edible<\/span> – The shelled acorns are edible and were eaten by Native Americans, but they may be bitter due to high amounts of tannin and would need to be leached in water to make them palatable.<\/p>\n

Classification<\/p>\n

Kingdom:<\/span> Plantae – Plants
\nSubkingdom:<\/span> Tracheobionta – Vascular plants
\nSuperdivision:<\/span> Spermatophyta – Seed plants
\nDivision:<\/span> Magnoliophyta – Flowering plants
\nClass:<\/span> Magnoliopsida – Dicotyledons
\nSubclass:<\/span> Hamamelididae
\nOrder:<\/span> Fagales
\nFamily:<\/span> Fagaceae – Beech family
\nGenus:<\/span> Quercus<\/em> L. – oak
\nSpecies:<\/span> Quercus gambelii<\/em> Nutt. – Gambel oak<\/p>\n

More About This Plant<\/p>\n

Arizona County Distribution Map<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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