Quercus inopina

{{Short description|Species of shrub}}

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| image = Quercus Inopina.jpg

| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author1=Wenzell, K.|author2=Kenny, L.|date=2015 |title=Quercus inopina|volume=2015|url=https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/72420414/72420528 |access-date=January 6, 2023}}

| genus = Quercus

| display_parents = 2

| parent = Quercus sect. Lobatae

| species = inopina

| authority = Ashe 1929

| range_map = Quercus inopina range map.png

| range_map_caption = Natural range

}}

Quercus inopina, the sandhill oak,{{PLANTS|id=QUIN7|taxon=Quercus inopina|access-date=15 September 2015}} is an uncommon North American species of oak shrub. It has been found only in the state of Florida in the southeastern United States.[http://bonap.net/MapGallery/County/Quercus%20inopina.png Biota of North America Program 2014 county distribution map][http://florida.plantatlas.usf.edu/Plant.aspx?id=1173 Atlas of Florida Vascular Plants]

It is a branching shrub up to 5 meters (17 feet) in height. The bark is gray, twigs purplish brown. The leaves are broad, up to {{Convert|85|mm|abbr=off|sp=us|frac=8}} long, usually hairless, with no teeth or lobes.[http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1&taxon_id=233501049 Flora of North America, Quercus inopina Ashe, 1929][https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/600825#page/96/mode/1up Ashe, William Willard 1929. Rhodora 31(364): 79–80][https://www.jstor.org/stable/2995985?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents Ann F. Johnson and Warren G. Abrahamson 1982. Quercus inopina: A Species to be Recognized from South-Central Florida. Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club 190:392-395]