Northern red oak trees grow best in moist ... Trees of North America: A Guide to Field Identification. Revised Edition. Western Pub. Co., Inc. 280pp. Elias, T.S. 1980. The Complete Trees of North ...

This week, we take a look at the sixth of our oak varieties in Indiana, the Northern Red Oak or Quercus rubra. This native species is easily identified by its bark and its acorn. The bark looks like ...

One of the easiest ways to tell a red oak from a white oak is by looking at the leaves. Red oak leaves have pointed lobes and white oak leaves have rounded ones. Adobe Stock / Field & Stream ...

The bark is light and thin — quite unlike the dark, tough bark of northern red or black oak. Pin oak’s scientific name Quercus palustris means “oak of the swamp.” This species can tolerate ...

Northern red oaks, quercus rubra, are, to me, the cardinals of the oak world: easy to identify. These are beautiful majestic oak trees with rough, furrowed bark. The furrows reveal pale ...

Red oaks have wood with a more reddish hue while white oak is paler, with an almost whitish tint. Common red oak species include Northern red, Southern red, pin, willow, and black oak. Prevalent ...

Steve Nix is a member of the Society of American Foresters and a former forest resources analyst for the state of Alabama. An oak tree is one of the most common species of trees in the Northern ...