| Bluejack Oak Tree | | | | Oak acorns that quickly mature in the fall when |
| The blue coloring in the leaves of the Bluejack Oak | | | | wildlife food is scarce for birds, deer, and wildlife |
| Tree, Quercus incana gives its name. The Bluejack | | | | animals. |
| Oak ranges from Virginia south to Florida and | | | | When used as a shade tree, a gardener can expect |
| westward to Texas. The mature tree can grow to | | | | growth of 6 feet the first year that rapidly matures |
| 50 feet, but usually is small, shrubby, and forms | | | | to shade the office or home. The elongated |
| thickets that give important shelter for many wildlife | | | | willow-like seven inch leaves are toothed and colored |
| animals such as squirrels, foxes, deer, raccoons, and | | | | a lustrous green. During the fall the leaves turn yellow |
| game birds. The acorns are small and are eaten | | | | and then orange to give a pyramid-tree shade that |
| readily by wildlife animals and birds. | | | | becomes round at maturity. The Sawtooth Oak can |
| Chapman Oak Tree | | | | also be grown very successfully along city streets to |
| The Chapman Oak Tree,Quercus chapmanii grows as | | | | shade sidewalks, parks, recreational areas, and to |
| a native plant from the Carolinas south to Florida. | | | | purify the caustic fumes of diesel and gasoline |
| Although the Chapman Oak can grow to 50 feet., it | | | | engines. |
| is often smaller, even bushy and grows near sand | | | | Turkey Oak Tree |
| dunes and in poor soils of the south. White tailed | | | | The Turkey Oak Tree, Quercus laevis is found |
| deer, squirrels, raccoons, and game birds eat the | | | | growing in ranges from Virginia south to Florida, and |
| acorns and birds use the trees as nesting sites. This | | | | west to Texas as a native tree that is well adapted |
| tree thrives in the sandy soils of the south and | | | | to grow on poor soils and can be found growing in |
| appears to be salt water tolerant since it grows on | | | | association with Bluejack Oak and Post Oak Trees in |
| the sand dunes of the Gulf and Atlantic Coast | | | | Longleaf Pine Tree forests. The Turkey Oak Tree |
| beaches. | | | | usually is small when compared to other Oak trees |
| Gobbler Oak Tree | | | | growing about 20-30 feet. The Turkey Oak Tree |
| The Gobbler Oak Tree, Quercus acutissima 'Gobbler' | | | | grows small acorns similar to Gobbler Oak Tree |
| was developed by a research group in Kentucky as a | | | | acorns that are voraciously eaten by turkey and |
| wildlife oak variety more suitable to the feeding of | | | | many other small wildlife game birds and small wildlife |
| turkey populations because only 150 acorns per | | | | animals. The wood is used commercially as firewood |
| pound are are much smaller and easier to eat by the | | | | and only rarely as hardwood flooring when found as |
| turkey than the Sawtooth acorns that number about | | | | large Turkey Oak Trees. |
| 50 acorns per pound. Large plantings of Gobbler Oaks | | | | White Oak Tree |
| are made near wildlife hunting sites, because the | | | | The White Oak Tree, Quercus alba, is one of the |
| trees can grow as fast as 6 feet per year and | | | | largest Oak trees in native forests and is prized as |
| produce acorns as early as 2 years. The Gobbler Oak | | | | the state tree in Illinois, Connecticut, and Maryland. A |
| quickly attract turkey populations on a repeating | | | | large 84 ft tall and 4 feet in diameter White Oak has |
| annual visitation, not only by the turkey but other | | | | been indexed in the Oak forests of Ohio, and has a |
| game wildlife animals who feed on the small acorns. | | | | life span of hundreds of years and appears to be |
| Sawtooth Oak Tree | | | | very resistant to insect and disease problems. |
| The Sawtooth Oak Tree, Quercus acutissima | | | | The acorns of the White Oak are eaten by deer, |
| 'Sawtooth' was imported into American from China | | | | game birds, and many other wildlife animals. The early |
| and has been extensively planted as a yard plant, | | | | American Indians made a variety of recipes from the |
| shade tree and as a plantation wildlife tree for | | | | acorns. The white bark is very attractive as a |
| feeding deer, game birds, squirrels, and many other | | | | landscape specimen tree, and the attractive inner |
| wildlife animals. The Sawtooth Oak offers many | | | | wood is choice for oak hardwood floors and for |
| beneficial landscape bonuses such as extremely fast | | | | furniture manufacturing. The White Oak Trees grow |
| growth into a mature specimen in two or three | | | | best on well drained soils and are widely adapted as a |
| seasons. The large oval shaped acorns can form in | | | | native forest tree throughout the United States, and |
| just two two after planting and appear to be the | | | | is the most common Oak tree in American forests. |
| favorite and most inexpensive food source for | | | | This tree is salt water tolerant and forms a tap root, |
| wildlife food plot planters, because of then Sawtooth | | | | even in the juvenile stage of growth. |