Overcup Oak - Tree Identification

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The overcup oak is a large tree with simple, alternate leaves, 6 to 10 inches long.

The leaves or more narrow than many of the other lobed oaks. The leaf margin is highly variable with 5 to 9 lobes with irregular sinuses. The underside is white and pubescent (hairy).

The fruit of the overcup oak is an acorns 1/2 to 1 inch long, round and almost entirely covered by the cap.

Bark is Gray-brown and scaly, often with irregular plates.

The acorns are extensively used by many animals including deer.

Overcup oaks grow in bottomlands and wetlands. Overcup oak unlike many oaks, thrives in periodically wet, bottomland.

Overcup oak can be found from Delaware and Maryland south to Georgia and northwestern Florida; west to eastern Texas, northward to Oklahoma to southwestern Indiana, and western Kentucky.

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