Description ²

Fagaceae | northern red oak

Habitat: Woods, and mountains in the south of its region.

Leaves: Elliptic, ovate, or obovate, to 8" long and 6" across, with slender-toothed lobes, matte dark green and smooth above, paler and smooth with small tufts of brown hairs in the vein axils beneath, turning red-brown in autumn; lobes end in bristlelike point.

Bark: Gray and smooth, becoming deeply furrowed.

Flowers: Males in yellowish green, drooping catkins, females inconspicuous, separately on the same plant in late spring.

Fruit: An acorn, to 1 1/4" long, one-quarter enclosed in a shallow cup.

Coombes, A. J. (1992). Trees. New York: Dorling Kindersley.

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