Texas Red Oak
Quercus buckleyiTexas Red Oak is a large tree native to the Texas Hill Country that grows 60–75 ft tall and 15–30 ft wide. It wants full sun and low water, and handles caliche and clay soil. Blooms white, red and green in Mar–Jun. Good for birds and small mammals.
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From our guide
Village of the HillsUpright oak with genuinely good fall color — scarlet to orange, unusual this far south. Smaller and faster than the big oaks.
Why it works here
One of the few reliable fall-color trees for Central Texas, and it handles alkaline limestone soil that most maples cannot.
Watch out
Susceptible to oak wilt. Wants well-drained ground; will decline in a low spot that stays wet.
The facts
7 sources- Type
- Large tree
- Sun
- Full sun (6+ hrs)
- Water
- Low
- Height
- 60–75 ft
- Spread
- 15–30 ft
- Bloom
- Mar–Jun · white, red, green
- Foliage
- Deciduous
- Soil
- Takes caliche and clay · recorded on dry, limestone, rocky, well drained
- Deer
- Moderate — deer may browse it, especially new growth. Saplings browsed and rubbed. Cage early.
- Wildlife
- Supports birds and small mammals
Where it grows
Recorded in these EPA Level IV ecoregions in the Austin and Hill Country launch area:
1,417 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.