Northern red oak

Plant - Quercus rubra

Northern red oak or common red oak, is an oak tree in the red oak group. It is a native of North America, in the eastern and central United States and southeast and south-central Canada. It prefers good soil that is slightly acidic. Often simply called red oak, northern red oak is so named to distinguish it from southern red oak, also known as Spanish oak.

 

Main Photo Credit: "Northern red oak (Quercus rubra), New Jersey, USA" by Braydon L, 2026. CC BY-NC 2.0.

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