Quercus nigra

Fagaceae

Coastal Plain

Delaware, District of Columbia, Maryland, Virginia

Tall Tree (Canopy)

50 - 80ft

- ft

(inconspicuous)

Nut/Nut-like; Black

Partial Sun, Shade

Clay, Loamy

Moist, Wet

April - May

green persists late

mixed upland woods, bottomlands, hammocks and old fields

acorns food for wildlife; Occasionally used in landscape planting; deer browse the leaves and twigs; the acorns are eaten by deer, black bear, racoon, all the squirrels, and even by rabbit and opossum as well as smaller rodents; the acorns are much used by the wood duck, wild turk