Turkey Oak

This is one of the few Florida oaks that looks like an oak to most people from the eastern US north of Florida. Tends to be smaller toward the southern end of its range.



Specimen or shade tree.

Not salt tolerant of inundation by salty or brackish water.



Low/no tolerance of salty wind or direct salt spray

Difficult to transplant once it has formed its tap root.

Used by woodpeckers and wild turkey

Valued by squirrels and other mammals including white tailed deer

Used by birds for resting and nesting

Sandhill, scrub, scrubby sandhill. Increases in sandhill where long leaf pines were removed and where burns are restricted to winter.

• Fall color, Interesting foliage, Hurricane wind resistance
• Larval host plant forHorace's duskywing (Erynnis horatius), red-banded hairstreak (Calycopis cecrops) and white-M hairstreak (Parrhasius m-album) butterflies)