Sand Live Oak

Slower growing and generally smaller than live oak. Extremely drought tolerant.

In environments where there is fire, this is often a small clonal shrub or cluster of small trees.



Specimen tree, shade tree. Thicket in dry sandy areas.

Not salt tolerant of inundation by salty or brackish water.



Some tolerance to salty wind but not direct salt spray.

Valued by the Florida scrub-jay for its acorns which are relatively low in tanins and often used as a nesting tree.

Acorns used by woodpeckers and wild turkey

Valued by squirrels and other mammals including white tailed deer

Acorns are low in tannins making them a preferred nut by birds and other wildlife.

Scrub, sandhill, scrubby flatwoods, flatwoods, coastal hammocks. Increases in flatwoods under winter burn management.

• Interesting foliage, Hurricane wind resistance
• Larval host plant for oak hairstreak (Fixsenia favonius), Horace's duskywing (Erynnis horatius), red-banded hairstreak (Calycopis cecrops) and white-M hairstreak (Parrhasius m-album) butterflies.
• possible larval host for Juvenal's duskywing (Erynnis juvenalis).