Spanish Oak

Like most oaks, the leaves are highly variable with leaves in the upper parts of the tree generally being more finely divided.



Shade tree.

Not salt tolerant of inundation by salty or brackish water.



Low/no tolerance of salty wind or direct salt spray

The acorns are eaten by woodpeckers, blue jays, white-breasted nuthatches, American crows and wild turkey

Attracts small mammals including squirrels, white-tailed deer and black bear.

Pine-oak-hickory woods, dry bluffs, sinks, secondary woods.

• Fall color
• Host plant for the banded hairstread, Edward's hairstreak, Grey Hairstreak, white-mouth hairstreak, white-M hairstreak (Parrhasius m-album) Horace's Duskywing, and Juvenal's duskywing butterflies.