Arkansas Oak

The images that you show of the acorns and leaves and bark on Dave's garden are not Arkansas Oak images but of Blackjack Oak. The acorns...Read More image and the leaf image is a black jack oak not Arkansas Oak. If you need some good pictures of a Arkansas Oak, I would be happy to send you the correct images. Both of these oaks grow in dry areas and the leaf might be confused from someone who is not familiar with both species, but Blackjack oak acorns look nothing like Arkansas acorns and the leaves of Arkansas an less than half the size of Blackjack. Also Arkansas oak is very limited where it will grow it only grows in dry sandy soils not clay soils as the Black Jack Oak will grow. Neither is the image of the bark you are showing. That bark image is also black jack oak and not Arkansas Oak.

I have beautiful specimens growing in thin soil on top of stiff clay. Mulched, of course. Drought tolerant. My best and most well-maintai...Read Morened tree puts on 2' + growth each year.

The native range of the quercus arkansana includes much of AR, LA, GA and only a small porion of the extreme western side of the FL panha...Read Morendle. In Florida, it's considered a threatened species.

It can be found in well drained sandy soils in hardwood forests.

First discovered in Arkansas in the early 1900's.

Resembling the Blackjack Oak, but with leaves that are smaller and less leathery. It has a much more restricted Southern range and is see...Read Moren infrequently across the deep South. Trunk bark is dark and furrowed, leaves between 2" and 4"....it likes sandy, well drained soil.