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Bur oak is a slow-growing, long-lived native oak tree that reaches 90 feet tall and wide. It is identified by its dull green 8-inch oblong leaves with 7 to 11 lobes, hairy yellow-green undersides, and corky twigs. It has deeply ridged gray bark with deep furrows that become more distinct with age.
Quercus macrocarpa, the bur oak or burr oak, is a species of oak tree native to eastern North America. It is in the white oak section, Quercus sect. Quercus, and is also called mossycup oak, mossycup white oak, blue oak, or scrub oak.
Bur oak trees are native to North America and can be found in the eastern and central United States, as well as parts of Canada. They prefer deep, rich soils and full sun but can also grow in light shade.
Bur oaks, also called mossycup oak, are decidedly impressive oak trees native to North America. They grow in the wild in central and eastern sections of the continent. The common names come from a mossy scale, or bur, on the acorn cup rim.
The stately bur oak, native to the Midwest, is a great choice as a shade tree and for specimen plantings in parks, spacious yards, and other large areas. Its massive trunk has gray to brown furrowed bark and its branches bear lustrous dark green leaves that turn yellow-brown in fall.
bur oak, (Quercus macrocarpa), North American timber tree belonging to the white oak group, distributed primarily throughout the central United States. It has become a popular ornamental and shade tree in urban areas because of its resistance to insect and fungal attack, drought, and air pollution.
Bur oak is the northern-and western-most of our eastern oak species. In the north, it sometimes dwindles to shrub size, but in Texas its big acorns reach their largest size and in the Midwest, it is honored along with other oaks as the state tree of Iowa.
Bur oak (Quercus macrocarpa), also known as blue oak, mossy-overcup oak, mossy-overcup oak, and scrub oak, has the largest acorns of all native oaks and is very drought resistant. It grows slowly on dry uplands and sandy plains but is also found on fertile limestone soils and moist bottomlands in mixture with other hardwoods.
Bur oak is a classic tree especially adapted to an American mid-western "savanna" timber type. Quercus macrocarpa has been planted and naturally shelters the tree-challenged Great Plains, now and for centuries, even where other introduced tree species have made attempts but failed.
Bur oak is a large long-lived shade tree that is native to Minnesota. it has a stout trunk and a broad, rounded open crown of stout and crooked branches. The leaves are obovate in shape, being the broadest beyond the middle and the lower half of the leaf having 2 to 3 lobes on each side.