Texas Live Oak
Quercus fusiformisTexas Live Oak is a tree native to the Texas Hill Country that grows 20–60 ft tall and 40 ft wide. It wants full sun or part shade and low water, and handles caliche and clay soil. Blooms yellow in Mar–May. Evergreen — it holds its leaves through winter. Good for birds and butterflies.
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The facts
6 sources- Type
- Tree
- Sun
- Full sun to part shade (5–8 hrs of direct sun)
- Water
- Low
- Height
- 20–60 ft
- Spread
- 40 ft
- Bloom
- Mar–May · yellow
- Foliage
- Evergreen
- Soil
- Takes caliche and clay · recorded on calcareous, dry, gravelly, limestone, loam, shallow
- Deer
- Moderate — deer may browse it, especially new growth
- Wildlife
- Supports birds and butterflies
Where it grows
Recorded in these EPA Level IV ecoregions in the Austin and Hill Country launch area:
3,161 occurrence records in Central Texas (GBIF).
Can you buy it?
Sold at local nurseries. Confirmed in stock at a Central Texas grower in these sizes:
also grows from seed It starts readily from seed, so a packet from a native-seed supplier, or seed collected with permission, is often the easiest way to get a plant no nursery pots.