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§1 Plant

Quercus ellipsoidalis E.J. Hill

vernacular northern pin oak — species · Fagaceae


USDA
QUEL
GBIF
2879276
Rank
species
northern pin oak (Quercus ellipsoidalis)
Platephotograph · Elijah OkeefeCC BY-NC source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

Growth habit
Tree
Duration
Perennial
Group
Dicot
Family
Fagaceae Dumort.
Genus
Quercus
§2a

Native status, by region

  • CAN Canada Native
  • L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b

County-level range

· 178 counties across 8 states/territories
Legend Native · 178 Introduced · 0 Both · 0 Hover a county for detail.

§3Cultivation

No cultivation specs.

USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.


§4Counties, by state

Recorded in 178 counties across 8 states/territories.

Illinois view state ↗ 18 N
Indiana view state ↗ 16 N
Iowa view state ↗ 2 N
Michigan view state ↗ 45 N
Minnesota view state ↗ 42 N
Missouri view state ↗ 1 N
Ohio view state ↗ 1 N
Wisconsin view state ↗ 53 N

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.

plants.usda.gov/QUEL ↗

GBIF Backbone

Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.

gbif.org/species/2879276 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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