Sawtooth Oak

The sawtooth oak has a leaf that looks unlike most oak leaves, giving the tree an almost shaggy appearance, which is reinforced by the sawtooth oak's shaggy-topped acorns. These acorns are bitter and eaten by squirrels only as a last resort.

  • Leaves

    3.5-7.5 inches long, alternate arrangement, simple and oblong; serrated, tooth-like edges

  • Fruit

    Acorns enclosed in small rosette of irregular leaves (involucre) with spreading and recurved bars

  • Flower

    Pendulous yellow-green catkins (male), messy, bloom in May

  • Bark

    Ridged and furrowed, ash brown, smooth grayish stems

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