''Quercus texana'', commonly known as Nuttall's oak,
is a fast-growing, large
deciduous oak tree.

It is a tree growing up to 25 meters (83 feet) tall, with dark brown
bark
Bark may refer to:
* Bark (botany), an outer layer of a woody plant such as a tree or stick
* Bark (sound), a vocalization of some animals (which is commonly the dog)
Places
* Bark, Germany
* Bark, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, Poland
Arts, ...
. It has
leaves
A leaf (plural, : leaves) is any of the principal appendages of a vascular plant plant stem, stem, usually borne laterally aboveground and specialized for photosynthesis. Leaves are collectively called foliage, as in "autumn foliage", wh ...
with sharp pointed lobes somewhat similar to those of the
Georgia oak
''Quercus georgiana'', the Georgia oak or Stone Mountain oak, is a rare deciduous red oak, native to the southeastern United States.
Description
''Quercus georgiana'' is a small tree, often shrubby in the wild, growing to tall. It is classifi ...
(''Q. georgiana'') and
pin oak (''Q. palustris''). It is fast-growing and usually has a pleasing red color in autumn, much more reliably so than the pin oak.
This species was for years erroneously called ''Quercus nuttallii'', but it is now known as ''Q. texana''; this has created much confusion with
Texas red oak
''Quercus buckleyi'', commonly known as Texas red oak or Buckley's oak, is a species of flowering plant. It is endemic to the southern Great Plains of the United States (Oklahoma and Texas).
Buckley's oak is smaller and more likely to be multitr ...
, which was known as ''Q. texana'' but is now known as ''Q. buckleyi''.
It is native to the south-central United States primarily in the lower
Mississippi River Valley in
Louisiana,
Arkansas,
Mississippi,
Alabama, and western
Tennessee. There are additional populations in eastern
Texas, southeastern
Oklahoma
Oklahoma (; Choctaw language, Choctaw: ; chr, ᎣᎧᎳᎰᎹ, ''Okalahoma'' ) is a U.S. state, state in the South Central United States, South Central region of the United States, bordered by Texas on the south and west, Kansas on the nor ...
, southeastern
Missouri, far western
Kentucky, and the southernmost tip of
Illinois.
It is still relatively obscure in the horticultural industry but is slowly gaining popularity due to its fast growth rate, ease of transplanting, good fall colors and ability to grow in wet soils. It is known for its ability to rapidly recover its gas exchange after flooding.
References
External links
Nuttall's Oak in the Biosurvey of Oklahomaphoto of herbarium specimen at Missouri Botanical Garden, collected in Missouri in 1989
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texana
Trees of the Southeastern United States
Endemic flora of the United States
Flora of Texas
Plants described in 1860