Trees, Shrubs and Conifers: I think it's an oak, but which one?, 1 by vossner

vossner wrote:
thank you both for your comments. I will look those up. I do have a chartreuse tree in my yard, but I'm beginning to think that as VV says, it's sickly b/c it's planted in the wrong soil. I think it is another oak, but don't know what kind. To the left, is the leaf from the tree at Lowe's, to the right, a leaf from my tree. BTW, mine is beautiful in spring but it scorches badly in summer. It is about 10 ft all, medium grower.

VV, yes about Chinkapin resenting excessive moisture. I have two of them, planted at the same time, relatively close to each other. One got hit by an overworking sprinkler head and for a while I thought I was going to lose it. It took a while to discover the faulty sprinkler head. The healthy tree is about 33% bigger/bushier. Since we fixed the problem, the tree looks much improved.