| Scientific Name: | Quercus robur |
| Common Name: | English oak |
| Family Name: | Fagaceae |
| Origin: | Europe |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 5: (-29 to -23 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Tree - deciduous |
| Mature Size: | > 30m x 15 - 25m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Irregular, Spreading, Upright |
| Form: | Round |
| Texture: | Medium |
| Landscape Uses: | Screening, Shade tree, Specimen plant, Wildlife food, Wind break |
| Exposure: | Full sun |
| Soil or Media: | Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Lobed, Alternate, Pinnate venation, Glabrous, Elliptic, Obovate, Pinnately lobed |
| Flowers: | Catkin (ament), Green-yellow, Mar-Apr |
| Fruit: | Edible, Nut, Brown, Sep-Oct-Nov |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Leaves mid-green, most obovate, lobes shallow and rounded (never more than half-way to midrib or pointed), leaf blade narrows toward the petiole (sinus more open and not as deep as in Garry oak), most 12-15cm long x 5-8cm wide when mature, pedicels 2-6mm long; catkins with peduncles up to 12cm long; acorns oval, 2-3cm long. Winter ID: branching upright (45 degree angle); twigs greenish; buds chubby, ovoid, 2-6mm long, brown, scales fringed with short hairs; leaf scars with 5 or more vein scars; terminal buds clustered. | |