Quercus montana

Southern Maine and Ontario to South Carolina and Alabama

It has an irregular spread. In youth is has a pyramidal, oval to rounded habit that eventually becomes rounded and dense with maturity.

Tolerates poor, dry soil, but grows best in moist, well-drained locations. Plant in full sun.

Grows well in very dry rocky soils

Dark yellowish green in summer. Resembles Quercus michauxii, but slightly more obovate

Buds are clustered, pointy and imbricately scaled

Deeply scultped bark, dotted with gray lenticels

Insignificant, yellow-green, blooms in April.

Acorns

Seed.