Arkansas Tree Database

Scientific name:

Quercus Lyrata

Size:

60'-100' tall

Leaves:

alternate, simple, 5"-9" long, with 5-9 lobes, with no bristles on tips; similar to white oak but more narrow and wedge-like

Flowers:

inconspicuous

Fruit:

acorn almost completely enclosed; in the white oak group so maturing, and often splitting irregularly, the first season on the current year's twig

Fall Interest:

yellow-brown, sometimes scarlet to scarlet-orange; deciduous

Culture:

sun; moist, acidic soil; most tolerant of occasional flooding of all native Arkansas oaks

Disease/Insect:

Use:

shade tree especially for low-lying areas

Cultivars:

Notes:

bark brownish gray and rough with scaly ridges or plates; twigs angled not circular in cross-section; in the white oak group; attractive to migratory waterfowl; native to Arkansas