Leaves are alternate, simple, lobed. Lobes have pointed tips.
Fruit is an acorn.
The shingle oak is a small to medium sized tree with a rather broad,rounded crown. When growing in the open it has a wide spread. It is distributed quite widely through the Ohio Valley, northward to Michigan and Wisconsin and westward to Iowa. Here in Iowa is occurs mostly in the southeastern part of the state on rich uplands. The leaves of the shingle oak are regular shaped and oblong.