SCIENTIFIC NAME: Quercus rubra

COMMON NAME: northern red oak

LEAVES: 7 to 11 lobes and glabrous with shallow sinuses (extending less than 1/2 way to midvein). Long petioles may be reddish. Leaves hang down. Few bristle tips per lobe. Red fall color. Up to 10" in length.

GROWTH RATE: 1.4 ft./yr. in our shade tree study. Up north this species grows much faster.

BARK: Black and ridge and furrowed.

OTHER: Native north of Lee county in Alabama. Has good fall color and a reddish brown bud. Should be used north of Birmingham and Atlanta.