Quercus × atlantica Ashe

Tree to 25 m and up to 80 cm diameter with spreading and ascending branches forming a broad, symmetrical crown. Young shoots greyish, pubescent. Leaves late deciduous, oblong to narrowly ovate or spatulate, rounded or with a short point at the bristle-tipped apex, tapered at the base to a petiole of about 5 mm. They are glabrous except on the midrib and petiole and are sparsely pubescent beneath with up to 6 pairs of lateral veins. Fruit biennial, sessile or nearly so. Cupule thin and shallow, to 18 mm across, the scales with brown pubescence. Nut to 15 mm long and 17 mm across, dark grey-brown, pubescent at the apex. (Ashe 1916).

Distribution  United States Southeastern States

Habitat Swamp margins, sandy flood plains, riverbanks and upland ridges.

USDA Hardiness Zone 6

RHS Hardiness Rating H6

Taxonomic note Sargent (1918) listed this under Quercus dubia Ashe, a name that is predated by a fossil of the same name and now an illegitimate synonym of Q. × filialis. He remarked that the leaves on Ashe’s specimen of Q. × atlantica resembled those of Q. laurifolia in size and shape, and like that species, were often lobed at the apex.