Chapman's Oak

This is a small clonal oak that can be used in a thicket as a screen.

Not salt tolerant of inundation by salty or brackish water.



Moderate. Tolerant of salty wind and may get some salt spray. Exposure to salt spray would be uncommon (major storms).

Valued by the Florida scrub-jay for its acorns which are relatively low in tanins

Used by woodpeckers and wild turkey

Valued by squirrels, racoons and other mammals including white tailed deer

Scrub, dunes, scrubby flatwoods, scrubby high pine.

• Fall color
• Larval host plant for Horace's duskywing Erynnis horatius), Juvenal's duskywing (Erynnis juvenalois), red-banded hairstreak (Calycopis cecrops) and white-M hairstreak (Parrhasius m-album) butterflies; possible larval host fof oak hairstreak (Fixsenia favonius).