Leaves are alternate, simple, lobed. Lobes have pointed tips.
Fruit is an acorn.
It is found widely over the eastern part of the United States as far west as eastern Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas. It is found quite generally throughout Iowa on dry ridges. The lobes are sometimes shallow and sometimes deeply lobed, the shape varying greatly. They are dark green and shiny above and pale beneath, with rusty brown hairs in the forks of the leaf veins. The buds are distinctly angular.