Quercus geminata, commonly called sand live oak, is an evergreen oak tree native to the coastal regions of the subtropical southeastern United States, along the Atlantic Coast from southern Florida northward to southeastern Virginia and along the Gulf Coast westward to southern Mississippi,[5] on seacoast dunes and on white sands in evergreen oak scrubs.

[6] A small- to medium-sized tree, the sand live oak is scrubby and forms thickets.

The leaves are thick, leathery, and coarsely veined, with extremely revolute margins, giving them the appearance of inverted shallow bowls; their tops dark green, their bottoms dull gray and very tightly tomentose, and their petioles densely pubescent, they are simple and typically flat with bony-opaque margins, having a length of 2–12 centimetres (3⁄4–4+3⁄4 inches) and a width of 0.5–4 cm (1⁄4–1+1⁄2 in).

The acorns are small, 1–2.5 cm, oblong-ellipsoid or ovoid, and are commonly born in pairs on peduncles of varying lengths.

[2] While hybridization occurs between Q. geminata and Q. virginiana, the two species are genetically and morphologically distinct.