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White Oak

White Oak

Quercus alba L.

Fagaceae family

This is a large and rather common tree in these forests. Its alternate leaves have distinctively round lobes unlike the pointed lobes of red and scarlet oaks. The foliage turns a dull to brick-red in the second half of October.