Quercus alba

• BOTANICAL NAME: Quercus alba
• PRONUNCIATION: KWER-kus AL-ba
• COMMON NAME: White Oak
• FAMILY: Fagaceae
• NATIVITY: Eastern to midwestern United States
• GROWTH HABIT: Pyramidal in youth, becoming rounded with horizontal branches; 50'-80' (100') tall. Slow to medium growth rate, slower with great age.
• HARDINESS: Zone 3-9
• CULTURE: Full sun in deep, moist, rich, well-drained acid soils.
• LANDSCAPE USE: Not commonly planted as a landscape tree; usually taprooted and is therefore difficult to transplant. Mildly sensitive to environmental changes during site development.
• FOLIAGE: Alternate, simple, 4"-9" long, 5-9 rounded, entire lobes. Bright-green above, gray-green monoecious, male in catkins, female in solitary to many-flowered spikes in leaf axils.
• BUDS: Red-brown to brown, 1/8" - 1/4" long.
• BARK: Light-gray in color, ridged and furrowed.
• FRUIT: Nut (acorn) 1/2" - 1" long with involucre (cup) only covering 1/4 of nut.
• PROPAGATION: Seed.
• PESTS: Numerous but not serious.
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