Quercus nigra ~ Water Oak-ServeScape
Quercus nigra ~ Water Oak-ServeScape
Quercus nigra ~ Water Oak-ServeScape
Quercus nigra ~ Water Oak-ServeScape
Quercus nigra ~ Water Oak-ServeScape
Quercus nigra ~ Water Oak-ServeScape

Quercus nigra

Water Oak

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Water Oak is a large natives semi-evergreen tree with a conical to broad rounded crown, and a slender straight trunk.  The narrow 3-lobed dull blue-green foliage with paler undersides turn coppery gold or red in fall and may persist through most of winter in the south.  The nearly black acorns have flat scaly cups and take two growing seasons to mature.  Best grown in full sun and medium to wet rich well-drained acidic soils. 

Quercus nigra supports a wide variety of moths and butterflies, including: the Imperial Moth, Banded Hairstreak, Edward's Hairstreak, Gray Hairstreak, White-M Hairstreak, Horace’s Duskywing, and the Juvenal’s Duskywing. 

Type: 

Tree

Origins:

Southeast N. America; GA Native

Height: 

50’ - 80’

Spread: 

40’ - 60’

Spacing: 

50’

USDA Hardiness Zone: 

6 - 9

Culture: 

Full Sun, Part Sun

Bloom Color: 

Green

Season of Interest:

Fall

MAINTENANCE NEEDS:  Low Maintenance.  Water Oak is notoriously weak wooded and becomes more susceptible to trunk canker and rots with age.  Susceptible to a large number of diseases, including oak wilt, chestnut blight, shoestring root rot, anthracnose, oak leaf blister, cankers, leaf spots and powdery mildew. Potential insect pests include scale, oak skeletonizer, leaf miner, galls, oak lace bugs, borers, caterpillars and nut weevils.

LANDSCAPE USES:  Accents or Group Plantings, BordersWoodland GardensNaturalized AreasWildlife Gardens Privacy Screen, and Shade Tree.

COMPANION PLANTS: Crape MyrtleServiceberryMagnolia

IMAGES:  Michael WolfQuercus nigra HabitusCC BY-SA 3.0,  (2) Krzysztof Ziarnek, KenraizQuercus nigra kz1CC BY-SA 4.0, (3) Michael WolfQuercus nigra LaubCC BY-SA 3.0, (4) Homer Edward PriceWater-Oak-catkins (2882861283)CC BY 2.0, (5) Famartin2019-11-29 12 36 23 A Water Oak turning yellow in late autumn along White Barn Lane in the Franklin Farm section of Oak Hill, Fairfax County, VirginiaCC BY-SA 4.0

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