Growing in a frequently mowed lawn.
Growing at the edge of a wetland forest.
Two of the fruit photos have Q. palustris acorns indicated at the left with red arrows. At the right is Q. rubra and at center is Q. × columnaris (palustris × rubra).
Associated Q. × columnaris observation:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/202045744
Thanks to Albert Garofalo for showing me this woodland.
Flowering on a tree.
Germinating as weeds in garden beds and sometimes lawns, usually persisting for up to a couple of years, until they get weeded or mowed out of existence.
Naturally occurring tree at the edge of a forest, not cultivated.
Photos of twigs and fruit from three cultivated trees:
Photos taken in January and November 2022.
Inat says ash.. is it?
The last four photos from the same clump of shrubs, but 3.5 years earlier.
Numerous trees of this species growing in a generally rocky, upland forest, many of the rocks appearing to be basalt or something similar. Acorn cap about 1.5 cm diameter.
This species hasn't been documented in Guilford County since the 1960s, but it's still present here in this surprisingly large population.
I was tipped off to this population here by fallen leaves seen in this observation:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/98495883
Perhaps the first one documented from Guilford County, NC.
Growing at the edge of a forest thicket.
In a swampy woodland.
Twigs either glabrous or pubescent.