Common name
English: Bear Oak
German: Busch-Eiche
Classification
Kingdom: Plantae (2715)
Phylum: Tracheophyta (2630)
Class: Magnoliopsida (2217)
Order: Fagales (32)
Family: Fagaceae (23)(family description)
Genus: Quercus (16)
Epithet: ilicifolia (Wangenh.) (1)
Synonym: Quercus banisteri Michx.
banisteri => in honor of Reverend John Baptist Banister (1650–92), English botanist in Virginia, USA
ilicifolia => from Latin, Ilex, holly and folium, a leaf
Characteristics
Climate: temperate
Habitat: mesophytic
Habit: tree
External links
Check for Quercus ilicifolia at
World Flora Online, GBIF or IPNI- [1184] Quercus - Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database