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Fagaceae
Coastal Plain, Mountain, Piedmont
District of Columbia, Maryland, New York, Virginia, West Virginia
Small/Medium Tree (Understory)
35 - 50ft
Green, Yellow
Nut/Nut-like; Brown
Full Sun
Loamy
Dry, Moist
May - June
yellow-brown
rich, moist woods; well drained soils of on uplands sites, limestone outcrops, dry bluffs, slopes
; Deer browse the leaves and twigs and take cover in "redbrush " stands of young oaks that retain their leaves through the winter. The acorns are eaten by deer, black bear, racoon, all the squirrels, and even by rabbit and opossum as well as smaller rodent