Quercus virginiana

• BOTANICAL NAME:  Quercus virginiana
• COMMON NAME: Live Oak
• FAMILY: Fagaceae
• NATIVITY: Southern coastal-plain
• GROWTH HABIT: 40-80’
• HARDINESS:  USDA Zone (7)8 to 10
• OPTIMUM GROWING CONDITIONS:  Sandhills and sandy woods, very salt and sun tolerant  
• SUCCESSIONAL STATUS: Climax
• FACULTATIVE STATUS:  Facultative Upland
• LANDSCAPE VALUE:  Grows well in sandy areas, shape almost resembles Ilex
• FOLIAGE: Alternate, simple, evergreen, entire
• BUDS:  Imbricately scaled, reddish-brown and glabrous
• BARK:  Grows blocky almost like D. virginiana in old growth, darkens in old growth but new stems are lighter
• FRUIT:  1-5 per stalk, nearly enclosed nut
• PESTS:  Gall, oak wilt, bacterial leaf scorch