So You Have Your List of Native Plants. Now What?
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Location
May not be native
Use Location
Type
Trees
Attributes
Butterflies, Caterpillars, Fruit, Nuts
Black Oak, also known as Yellow, Smoothbark, or Yellowbark Oak, is a medium to large deciduous tree, growing to around 80 feet tall and producing catkins and acorns. The leaves are shiny green above and pale green below, and turn red or orange in the fall. It can grow in full sun to partial shade, and in soils that are dry and sandy to moist and rich. This tree is distinguishable by its yellow to orange inner bark, which was once used as a dye for cloth.
May Attract
Black Oak is thought to attract these families of birds
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Ruby-throated Hummingbird at a butterflyweed. Photo: Dave Maslowski
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