Arkansas Tree Database

Scientific name:

Quercus Stellata

Size:

50'-80' tall by as wide

Leaves:

alternate, simple, 4"-5" long and sometimes nearly as broad, deeply 5-lobed with the 2 central lobes squarish and cross-shaped, rough upper surface, with no bristles on tips

Flowers:

inconspicuous

Fruit:

small acorn half-enclosed in cup; in the white oak group so maturing the first season on the current year's twig

Fall Interest:

golden brown, persisting late; deciduous

Culture:

sun; dry to moist soil, tolerant of dry, stony soil

Disease/Insect:

Use:

shade tree on stony sites; wood for fence posts, cooperage, cross ties, furniture

Cultivars:

Notes:

bark light gray, irregularly and shallowly grooved with rough plate-like scales; can live 300 years or more; bark tea used historically to treat a number of ailments; in the white oak group; native to Arkansas