Editing Quercus kelloggii (section)

=== Similar species ===
Its leaves (but not its fruit) appear very similar to several other members of the red oak section, including the red oak (''[[Quercus rubra]]'') and the black oak (''[[Quercus velutina]]'') found in eastern and central North America, despite being genetically separated from them for more than 20 million years.{{Citation needed|date=January 2025}}

It hybridizes with ''[[Quercus wislizeni]]''.<ref name="tktimb2" />