Also called common oak, pedunculate oak, 🇫🇷 French oak, and 🇪🇺 European oak. One of the
◼︎ white oaks.
Part of
oak genus Quercus
in
beech / oak family Fagaceae
in
bayberry / beech / birch / oak / walnut order Fagales.
Native to all over 🇪🇺 Europe and into Asia. Widely cultivated in temperate regions, it now lives wild in parts of 🇨🇳 China and 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 North America.
Invasive > 🇺🇸 USA
🗺 Map by county (🇺🇸 USA-48)
(color key).
Uses by native peoples
(Ethnobotany database)
With 🪵 oak's strength and flexibility, Vikings built their ⛵︎ longships primarily (many ships, entirely) of oak. With this species native to almost everywhere they roamed, this is the species of wood they used.
♧🌰︎☠︎ Leaves and acorns toxic[?] to humans,
although many cultures process acorns to remove their tannins, making acorns an important staple food.
This plant is known to be a host for (in areas where invasive)
🐝︎ spotted lanternfly (SLF) Lycorma delicatula.
If your oak is growing a few meters (yards) from a potential parent tree, its 🌰︎ acorn probably fell there, or was cached and forgotten by a
squirrel family Sciuridae.
If your oak is growing a kilometer (mile) away from a potential parent tree, its 🌰︎ acorn probably was cached and forgotten by a
🐦︎ jay family Corvidae,
with whom it coevolved.
— That and lots more interesting information in interview
"Our Most Essential Trees: The Nature of Oaks, with Doug Tallamy" The joe gardener Show.
or its
🔊︎ audio
Planting info (SW Michigan). 