Lobes have pointed tips.
Fruit is an acorn.
The red oak is one of the largest and most important timber trees in Iowa. One of the fastest growing of the oaks, it attains a height of 70 to 80 feet and a diameter of two to three feet. It has a wide, spreading headwith fewfar reaching branches. Found growing over southeastern Canada and the northeasternUnited States, it reaches west to central Minnesota, eastern Nebraska andKansas. It is found over most of Iowa on a variety of soils, except on thedrier clay uplands.