Flowers:
Green (Yellowish-green, monoecious catkins in the spring; not ornamentally important)
Foliage:
Green (Lustrous, fine textured summer foliage); Red (Attractive scarlet fall foliage)
Fruit:
Brown (Acorns in fall; attractive to wildlife)
Soil:
Requires acid soil and will develop severe iron chlorosis on calcareous soils
Range:
Eastern and Central United States
Diagnostic Characteristics:
Distinctive for its regular branching, spreading to horizontal to pendulous, from top to bottom of the tree. Alternate leaves (3-6" long) are 5-7 lobed. U-shaped leaf sinuses (Quercus coccinea has C-shaped sinuses). Blade is somewhat "V"-shaped at attachment with petiole. Small acorn (1/2" long) with nut enclosed only at base by a thin, saucer-like cup.
