White Oak
Quercus alba · Fagaceae · 미국흰참나무
How to spot it
Leaf lobes are rounded without bristles; pale gray-white bark and acorns with shallow caps.
Look
- Leaves
- Leaf lobes are rounded, without bristle-like tips.
- Flowers
- Male flowers are green-yellow in long drooping catkins; female flowers are smaller, a few together in the axils of new leaves.
- Fruit
- Oblong acorns ripen from green to light brown. A shallow cap with bumpy scales covers about a quarter to a third of the acorn; it matures in the first year.
- Bark
- White to light gray bark with shallow furrows and narrow plate-like scales.
Where it grows
- Native to
- From southeastern Canada through the central and eastern United States.
- Ecology
- Grows in forests on dry slopes, valleys and ravines, and tolerates some drought once established. Acorns feed birds, squirrels, deer and bears.