Water Oak

The wood is weak.



Shade tree. Semi-evergreen with leaves falling just before new leaves emerge.

Not salt tolerant of inundation by salty or brackish water.



Low/no tolerance of salty wind or direct salt spray

Acorns can be a maintenance problem.

Provides cover for and nesting areas for birds and squirrels

The acorns are used by squirrels, turkeys, and deer

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Floodplains, seep slopes, mesic secondary woods. May invade flatwoods if there is fire exclusion.

• Larval host plant for Horace's dusky wing (Erynnis horactius), red-banded hairstreak (Calycopis cecrops) and white-M hairstreak (Parrhasius m-album) butterflies