| Scientific Name: | Quercus alba |
| Common Name: | white oak |
| Family Name: | Fagaceae |
| Origin: | Canada - central, Canada - eastern, U.S. - central, U.S. - northeast |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 3: (-40 to -34 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Tree - deciduous |
| Mature Size: | 22 - 30m x 15 - 25m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Irregular, Open, Spreading, Twiggy, Upright |
| Form: | Pyramidal - widely, Round |
| Texture: | Medium |
| Landscape Uses: | Herb, Shade tree, Street (boulevard tree), Wildlife food, Wind break |
| Exposure: | Full sun |
| Soil or Media: | Rocky or gravelly or dry |
| Leaves: | Simple, Lobed, Alternate, Leathery, Pinnate venation, Lustrous, Tomentose, Oblong, Obovate, Pinnately lobed |
| Flowers: | Catkin (ament), Yellow, Green-yellow, Red, Apr-May |
| Fruit: | Nut, Brown, Sep-Oct |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Leaves variable but most with 7 to 9 deep rounded lobes with sinus usually less than half way to midrib, most blades 14-20cm long x 9-14cm wide, emerge pinkish and pubescent, maturing to dark green and glabrous, mostly obovate, petioles 1-2cm long; acorns oval, about 2cm long. Winter ID: whitish to ash-gray bark; twigs and buds reddish-brown, glabrous; multiple terminal buds, most ovoid, 2-7mm long; leaf scars mostly half-round, bundle scars scattered, indistinct. | |