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The Red Oak is the tallest of the northern oaks. It reaches an average height of 50-80 feet, occasionally 140 feet, and has a trunk diameter of 2-6 feet. The bark on very young trees is grayish brown and almost smooth. The older bark is dark brown and has shallow perpendicular furrows. The ridges are flat-topped, coarse, long, and regularly set. The leaves have wavy edges with many pointed lobes. They are also bristle-tipped, thin, shallowly notched, dark green or deep yellow green above and slightly paler beneath. The leaves are smooth with white veins, and are 4-7 inches long. The acorn is red or light brown with a shallow cup that has close scales. The Red Oak can be found from Nova Scotia and New Brunswick south to Florida, and west to Texas.
Information about this plant from the USDA Plants Database.
Information from the TreeGuide from Athenic Systems.
This page was last updated 19 Jul 2004.