Bluff Oak

Quercus austrina
(Bastard White Oak)
Relatively small for an oak. Use as specimen tree or in a grove.

Tolerance

Not salt tolerant of inundation by salty or brackish water.



Low/no tolerance of salty wind or direct salt spray

Wildlife

Birds, squirrels, racoons, deer and other wildlife eat the seeds.

Habitat

Well drained bottomlands and bluffs.

Did You Know?

  • Larval host for brown duskywing butterfly (Erynnis horatius), and gray hairstreak (Strymon melinus), and white-M hairstreak (Parrhasius m-album).