Arkansas Tree Database

Scientific name:

Quercus Palustris

Size:

65' tall by 45' wide

Leaves:

alternate, simple, with 5-11 deep lobes at nearly right angles to midvein, bristle-tipped

Flowers:

inconspicuous

Fruit:

small acorn barely enclosed by cup ripening in autumn of the second year

Fall Interest:

yellowish orange to brilliant red to maroon; persisting late; deciduous

Culture:

sun; moist soil; fairly adaptable to most soil except high pH (iron chlorosis); faster growing than other oaks

Disease/Insect:

Use:

ornamental shade tree, street tree; wood for crossties, fuel, pulp, face veneer, general lumber

Cultivars:

Notes:

bark grayish brown, thin, with shallow furrows and flat narrow ridges; pyramidal, with a strong central leader; lower limbs droop, middle limbs are horizontal, and upper limbs slant upward; named for small pin-like branches which make pin knots in the lumber; in the red oak group; likely confused with Q. coccinea (scarlet oak) and Q. shumardii (Shumard oak) in the trade; butterfly larval host; native to Arkansas