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Scarlet oak

Native

Quercus coccinea

Beech (Fagaceae) · Oak · 50–80 ft

Knowing it

Deeply cut leaves that turn brilliant red in fall. A dry-ridge tree of the Ozarks and eastern Missouri.

What a tree company sees

Short-lived for an oak and often hollow with age; dead limbs are common.

Recorded in 27 counties

From GBIF occurrence records. No record does not mean absent.