The 14 Oak Species of the Lake Wales Ridge

10. Quercus chapmanii

Is a white oak known only by Chapman’s Oak. It was once known, however, as a pygmy form of Quercus minima.

20. Leaf blades with 10 or more teeth or shallow lobes at the terminus of nearly straight secondary veins along each side 21. Trees, taller than 5 m when mature; leaf blades with 8-20 secondary veins on each side of the midrib 23. Mature leaf blades pubescent on the lower surface with yellow to reddish hairs and only sparsely stellate, the blade shape somewhat obovate, broader towards the apex to faintly 3-lobed at the apex

Quercus chapmanii

Following is an image of the original Chapman’s Oak specimen collected in the late 19th century by Curtiss himself.

Found by Curtiss in 1897 near Jacksonvill.