Plant: White Oak Tree
White Oak Tree · Quercus alba
Was $150.00
Size: 15 gal
Light
Bloom
Mature size
More about this plant
A long lived native shade tree with a broad, dense, rounded to pyramidal crown and whitish ashy gray scaly bark in flat plates. The leaves carry five to nine deep, rounded lobes without bristles and turn brown, purple and red in fall, and greenish yellow male catkins hang two to three and a half inches long in spring. Acorns about an inch long sit in shallow cups and feed songbirds, small mammals and moths. It grows slowly in full sun to part shade on acid clay, loam or sand and tolerates drought, heat, fire, salt and black walnut. Give it room in a lawn, meadow or naturalized area.
- Full Sun
- Grows to 135 ft tall and 80 ft wide
- Blooms in spring
- Hardy in USDA zones 3-9
- Deciduous foliage
- Native plant
Plant description
A long lived native shade tree with a broad, dense, rounded to pyramidal crown and whitish ashy gray scaly bark in flat plates. The leaves carry five to nine deep, rounded lobes without bristles and turn brown, purple and red in fall, and greenish yellow male catkins hang two to three and a half inches long in spring. Acorns about an inch long sit in shallow cups and feed songbirds, small mammals and moths. It grows slowly in full sun to part shade on acid clay, loam or sand and tolerates drought, heat, fire, salt and black walnut. Give it room in a lawn, meadow or naturalized area.
- Foliage
- Leaves have 5 to 9 deep, rounded and even lobes per leaf with no bristles.
- Fruit
- Acorns three quarters to one inch long sitting in a shallow cup that covers a quarter to a third of the nut.
- Bark & stems
- Whitish or light ashy gray scaly bark divided into flat narrow plates or vertical blocks.
- Native range
- South East Canada to Central and Eastern U.S.A.
