Water oak
NativeQuercus nigra
Beech (Fagaceae) · Oak · 50–80 ft
Knowing it
Spatula-shaped leaves of varied outline. A Bootheel bottomland tree at the north edge of its range.
What a tree company sees
Weaker than most oaks; decays and loses limbs with age.
Recorded in 10 counties
- Boone County
- Butler County
- Dunklin County
- Greene County
- Jackson County
- Oregon County
- Ripley County
- Scott County
- St. Louis County
- Stoddard County
From GBIF occurrence records. No record does not mean absent.