Plant: Willow Oak Tree
Willow Oak Tree · Quercus phellos
Size: 7 gal
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More about this plant
A fast growing native oak with a dense, rounded to oval crown and fine willow like leaves four to five inches long and an inch wide, bristle tipped at the tip, turning brown, gold, orange and red in fall. Yellowish green male catkins hang in spring and half inch acorns with banded scaly caps ripen in fall for songbirds, small mammals and moths. It takes full sun to part shade on clay, loam or sand from acid to neutral and tolerates wet soil, pollution, salt and deer. One of the better shade and street trees for the Mid South.
- Full Sun
- Grows to 75 ft tall and 50 ft wide
- Blooms in spring
- Hardy in USDA zones 5-9
- Deciduous foliage
- Native plant
Plant description
A fast growing native oak with a dense, rounded to oval crown and fine willow like leaves four to five inches long and an inch wide, bristle tipped at the tip, turning brown, gold, orange and red in fall. Yellowish green male catkins hang in spring and half inch acorns with banded scaly caps ripen in fall for songbirds, small mammals and moths. It takes full sun to part shade on clay, loam or sand from acid to neutral and tolerates wet soil, pollution, salt and deer. One of the better shade and street trees for the Mid South.
- Foliage
- Four to five inch long green leaves about an inch wide and willow like, bristle tipped at the apex.
- Fruit
- Half inch long rounded acorns with a scaly bowl like cap striated with brown and black bands, ripening in fall.
- Bark & stems
- Young bark is smooth and reddish brown, ageing to gray or dark gray brown with shallow ridges and furrows.
- Native range
- Central and Eastern U.S.A.
