It usually is a large shrub about 12 feet high, but can be a small tree about 20 feet or so. It grows in dry upland soils. Slow growing a...Read Morend long-lived. Native from parts of Texas to southeast Minnesota, down to northern AL & GA and up into New England. I've only seen the one big planting in the Oak Collection at Morton Arboretum in Lisle, IL, so it is not just commonly found everywhere in its range. I think it would be an interesting shrub for native, naturalistic landscapes. It has a fibrous but also a deep lateral root system, so it is not easy to transplant. It is stoloniferous, so it spreads some by underground stems.
There are local ecotypes hardy to Z4 or 5, but southern ecotypes are less hardy.
It usually is a large shrub about 12 feet high, but can be a small tree about 20 feet or so. It grows in dry upland soils. Slow growing a...Read More