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deer oak
Quercus sadleriana R.Br.ter
Quercus sadleriana is an evergreen monoecious oak shrub native to the US Pacific Northwest, with edible acorns.
Quercus sessilifolia Blume
Quercus sessilifolia Blume
Quercus sessilifolia is an Asian beech-family tree growing up to 25 m tall, found across Japan, Taiwan, and southeastern China.
Shumard oak
Quercus shumardii Buckley
Quercus shumardii, Shumard oak, is a large North American red oak valued for timber and as a shade tree.
bastard oak
Quercus sinuata Walter
Quercus sinuata is a deciduous oak species with two varieties native to the southern US and northern Mexico.
post oak
Quercus stellata Wangenh.
Quercus stellata, or post oak, is a small North American oak adapted to dry sites, used in forestry and for barbecue wood.
cork oak
Quercus suber L.
Quercus suber, the cork oak, is an evergreen oak native to the Mediterranean that is the primary source of natural cork.
Sonoran scrub oak
Quercus turbinella Greene
Quercus turbinella is a North American oak that is usually a shrub, provides food and cover for many wildlife, and hybridizes easily with other oaks.
huckleberry oak
Quercus vacciniifolia Hittell
Quercus vacciniifolia is a small shrubby evergreen oak native to mountain areas of the western United States, used for erosion control and landscaping.
Chinese cork oak
Quercus variabilis Blume
Quercus variabilis Blume is a deciduous oak native to East Asia, grown for cork, ornament, and medicinal mushroom cultivation.
Sandpaper Oak
Quercus vaseyana Buckley
Quercus vaseyana is a shrub or small oak native to northern Mexico and Texas, with brown bark and thick, leathery narrow leaves.
black oak
Quercus velutina Lam.
Quercus velutina (black oak) is a North American oak species with variable size, fire-tolerant, historically harvested for quercitron pigment.
southern live oak
Quercus virginiana Mill.
Quercus virginiana Mill. (southern live oak) is a long-lived, wind-resistant North American native oak with many uses.
Tucker Oak
Quercus welshii R.A.Denham
Quercus welshii is a North American beech-family shrub native to the southwestern United States' Colorado Plateau and Canyonlands region.
interior live oak
Quercus wislizeni A.DC.
Quercus wislizeni A.DC., the interior live oak, is a California oak with edible acorns used for fuelwood.
soapbark tree
Quillaja saponaria Molina
Quillaja saponaria, the soap bark tree, is a Chilean evergreen widely used for commercial saponins including vaccine adjuvants.
Quinchamali
Quinchamalium chilense Molina
Quinchamalium chilense is a variable heterostylous hemiparasitic perennial herb from Chile, used in local folk medicine.
purple groundcherry
Quincula lobata (Torr.) Raf.
Quincula lobata is a perennial herb native to the southwestern US and northern Mexico, whose berries are used by the Kiowa to make jam.
tawheowheo
Quintinia serrata A.Cunn.
Tāwheowheo (Quintinia serrata A.Cunn.) is an endemic New Zealand evergreen tree with leaf anthocyanins that protect shade-adapted chloroplasts from direct sun.
greater stitchwort
Rabelera holostea (L.) M.T.Sharples & E.A.Tripp
Rabelera holostea, or greater stitchwort, is a low herb with angular stems, opposite decussate leaves and white notched-petal flowers.
Woolly Fringe-moss
Racomitrium lanuginosum (Hedw.) Brid.
Racomitrium lanuginosum is a distinct cushion-forming moss with a wide circumpolar and disjunct global distribution.
Racopilum cuspidigerum (Schwägr.) Ångstr.
Racopilum cuspidigerum (Schwägr.) Ångstr.
Racopilum cuspidigerum is a widely distributed moss found across Oceania and nearby regions, with one recognized forest-dwelling variety.
California chicory
Rafinesquia californica Nutt.
Rafinesquia californica is a fire-adapted daisy-like Asteraceae native to western North America, bearing white often pink-striped flowers.
Desert Chicory
Rafinesquia neomexicana A.Gray
Rafinesquia neomexicana is an annual sunflower-family plant native to southwestern US deserts and northern Mexico.
silky raillardella
Raillardella argentea (A.Gray) A.Gray
Raillardella argentea, the silky raillardella, is an aster native to western North American mountains, a perennial herb with yellow flower heads.
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