The Blackjack oak (Quercus marilandica) is a small oak, one of the red oak group but fairly isolated from the others. Its name derives from the shape of the leaves, which flare from a tapered base to a broad three-lobed shape with only shallow indentations. The leaves are typically dark green and glossy, but also pubescent underneath and are marcescent. Scientific classification or biological classification is how biologists group and categorize extinct and living species of organisms. ... Divisions Land plants (embryophytes) Non-vascular plants (bryophytes) Marchantiophyta - liverworts Anthocerotophyta - hornworts Bryophyta - mosses Vascular plants (tracheophytes) Lycopodiophyta - clubmosses Equisetophyta - horsetails Pteridophyta - true ferns Psilotophyta - whisk ferns Ophioglossophyta - adderstongues Seed plants (spermatophytes) †Pteridospermatophyta - seed ferns Pinophyta - conifers Cycadophyta - cycads Ginkgophyta - ginkgo Gnetophyta - gnetae Magnoliophyta - flowering plants Adiantum pedatum (a fern... Classes Magnoliopsida - Dicots Liliopsida - Monocots The flowering plants (also called angiosperms) are a major group of land plants. ... Orders see text Dicotyledons or dicots are flowering plants whose seed typically contains two embryonic leaves or cotyledons. ... Families included in the Kew list: Fagaceae - Beech family   (including Nothofagaceae) Betulaceae - Birch family Corylaceae - Hazel family Ticodendraceae not included in the Kew list: Casuarinaceae - She-oak family Juglandaceae - Walnut family Rhoipteleaceae Myricaceae The Fagales are an order of flowering plants, including some of the best known trees. ... Genera Castanea - Chestnuts Castanopsis Chrysolepis - Golden chinkapin Colombobalanus Fagus - Beeches Formanodendron Lithocarpus - Stone oaks Nothofagus - Southern beeches Quercus - Oaks Trigonobalanus The family Fagaceae, or beech family, is characterized by alternate leaves with pinnate venation, flowers in the form of catkins, and fruit in the form of nuts, one to seven... This article is about oaks (Quercus desert-oak is unrelated, and instead belongs to the genus Allocasuarina. ... In biology, binomial nomenclature is the formal method of naming species. ... Otto von Münchhausen (1716-1774) was a German botanist. ... Species See List of Quercus species The term oak can be used as part of the common name of any of several hundred species of trees and shrubs in the genus Quercus, and some related genera, notably Lithocarpus. ... Genus Quercus Subgenus Quercus Typical oaks. ...

The acorn is very small, and, like other red oaks, takes 18 months to mature. Acorns of Sessile Oak The acorn is the fruit of oaks (genus Quercus, in the family Fagaceae). ...

The Blackjack oak grows in poor, thin, dry, rocky or sandy soils where few other woody plants can thrive. It does not have the beautiful form of many oaks, but is nonetheless a valuable tree for growing in problem sites. It is sometimes an understory tree in pine stands on sandy knolls in the southeastern US. Blackjack oak ranges from southern New York (Long Island) south to Georgia and northern Florida, and west to southern Iowa and south central Texas. In northern Texas, central Oklahoma, into Kansas, it forms the "Cross Timbers" forests with Post oak. State nickname: The Empire State Official languages None. ... The four counties of Long Island. ... State nickname: Sunshine State Official languages English Capital Tallahassee Largest city Jacksonville Governor Jeb Bush (R) Senators Bill Nelson (D) Mel Martinez (R) Area  - Total  - % water Ranked 22nd 170,451 km² 17. ... State nickname: The Hawkeye State Official languages English Capital Des Moines Largest city Des Moines Governor Thomas Vilsack (D) Senators Chuck Grassley (R) Tom Harkin (D) Area  - Total  - % water Ranked 26th 145,743 km² 0. ... ... The Cross Timbers is a savanna on the southern Great Plains running from southeastern Kansas, across central Oklahoma, into central Texas. ... Binomial name Quercus stellata Wangenh. ...

Uses

The wood is very dense, so much that it will rapidly dull chainsaws. The density of the wood causes a very hot flame when burnt, making Blackjack oak wood the preferred fuel for slow-cooked (Carolina style) pork barbecues and a good heat source for wood burning stoves but not desireable in wood fireplaces because of the heat causes "popping" increasing the risk of external fires. Family get-togethers at holiday time are preceded by all-night cooking of whole hogs, basted with family recipe sauces, over coals of blackjack oak, which imparts its own flavor to the meat. A tree trunk as found at the Veluwe, The Netherlands Wood derives from woody plants, notably trees but also shrubs. ... For the workstation, see SGI Fuel. ... Hormel Pork Loin Filets Roasted pork knuckle This article is on meat. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... The word holiday has related but different meanings in English-speaking countries. ... HOG or hog can mean:- A pig, originally a castrated male pig. ... Meat is animal tissue (mainly muscle) used as food. ...

External links

• Flora of North America - Quercus marilandica