Quercus rubra

Red oak , or northern red oak is in the red oak group (Lobatae) in the beech or Fagaceae family, and is native to North America in the eastern and central United States and southeast and south-central Canada. It can reach 32 m in height. Northern red oak is so named to distinguish it from southern red oak (Q. falcata).

• Leaves are alternate, simple, 7–9 lobed and less deeply cut than most other oaks of the red oak group. They are papery, up to 25 cm long and 20 cm across, are matte green above, light green beneath. They are reddish in spring and turn scarlet and crimson in the fall sometimes persisting dried into the winter.
• Species is monoecious, with male catkins and small female flowers.
• Fruit is a nearly-round acorn up to 2.5 cm long, solitary or in pairs, sessile or stocked, with a fat and thick cap covering about ¼ of the acorn.