Quercus Alba

Mar, Apr, May

Trees, Native Plant, Poisonous, Tree

Woody, Perennial

72-100 ft.

Male flowers are produced as greenish-yellow catkins in pendulous clusters about 2-3½" long. Female flowers are smaller and greenish-red and are few in spikes in axils of emerging leaves. Flowers appear in April., Male catkins 2-4 inches long; female flowers small single spikes., Male flowers are yellow-green, female flowers are reddish green.

1/2-1 inch long acorns are elongated and have a shallow cup that covers 1/4 of the nut. The cup is light tan or gray with warty scales. Acorns mature the first year and can be numerous and are a light brown color. Nuts appear from September-November., Acorns annual; 1 - 3 acorns on peduncle up to 1 1/4 inch (32 mm) long, light gray pubescent cup, enclosing 1/4 of the nut; light brown, oblong nut, up to 1 inch (25 mm) long; germinates in the fall after dropping to the ground.