Wide-spreading, rounded crown with numerous horizontal branches. Loose shaggy, scaly, gray to whitish bark. Alternately arranged, deeply divided, lobed leaves with upper surface dark green and the lower surface a whitish color, turn red in the fall.
Moist to well drained soils, especially hardwood slope forest.
Native Americans and settlers used acorns to make flour. Important hardwood used for furniture, flooring, wine and whiskey barrels and, in colonial times, for shipbuilding.
Leaf length: 4.00-8.00 inches
Tree height: 80.00-100.00 feet
Where to find White Oak on the Louisiana State Arboretum Trails:
WAB - Walker Branch Trail 19.0
Refer to our Live Map to locate this species and its interpretative signage on the trail system.