White Oak Scientific Name: Quercus alba
Description: A large oak of great economic value, 50-70' and sometimes 150' high, with a trunk diameter of 6-8'. The trunk short, the branches heavy and wide-spreading, the figure, in the open, sometimes broader than high. Bark whitish gray, or lightest buffish brown, firm, furrowed into deep, perpendicular ridges, with narrow, long, flat scales. The twigs greenish or gray, smooth, sometimes with a slight boom.
Habitat: Dry, upland woods or on sandy plains and gravelly ridges.
Range: Southern Maine, west to Michigan and Minnesota, southeastern Nebraska and south to northern Florida.
Type: Tree Source:Field Book of American Trees and Shrubs by F. Schuyler Mathews
Photograph: Joseph O'Brien, USDA Forest Service from www.forestryimages.org. |
