Canyon live oak
Quercus chrysolepis Liebm.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Little
- tall
- 12 m
- wide
- —
Fagaceae
Also called Canyon Live Oak, Canyon Oak, Goldcup Oak, Golden oak, Maul Oak
Formerly Quercus crassipocula, Quercus fulvescens, Quercus wilcoxii
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Shrub or treeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- SubtropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- W. Oregon to New Mexico and Mexico (Baja California Norte, NW. Chihuahua)Kew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from Oregon State University Landscape Plants, one source
- Height
- 6.1 m to 18 mRead from Oregon State University Landscape Plants, one source
- Water
- Little: takes droughtRead from Oregon State University Landscape Plants, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -20.8 °C (USDA zone 6b)Read from Oregon State University Landscape Plants and Wikipedia, checked: the middle of what its sources sayHalfway between its 2 sources, which differ. Sources differ: Oregon State University Landscape Plants -17.8 °C; Wikipedia -23.9 °C
Not known yet: spread, flowers, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (2)
- Spanish
- encino roble
- Chinese
- 金杯栎
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Oregon State University Landscape Plants, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 2.0
- 3D model: Quercus chrysolepis (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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