Habitat.—Grows on many different types of soils and from moist bottom lands to the tops of dry ridges.
Notes.—The White Oak ranks as one of the most valuable timber trees. It is known to more persons than any of our other oaks, and is generally praised as a beautiful and useful tree.
POST OAK
Quercus stellata, Wang.
Form.—Height 50-75 feet, diameter 2-3 feet, trunk usually short; the crown rounded, with spreading branches.
Leaves.—Alternate, simple, about 4-5 inches long, usually with five lobes, the middle pair largest but all short and broad; thick and leathery, nearly smooth above, covered beneath with dense grayish or yellowish stellate pubescence.
Flowers.—May; monoecious; the staminate on long drooping catkins; the pistillate short-stalked and woolly, with bright red stigmas.
Fruit.—Acorn ripening in autumn after flowers; cup small, thin, hairy inside, scales flat and woolly; nut small, oval ½-¾ inch long, brown, sometimes marked with nearly black longitudinal stripes.