A black oak tree can be identified by its bark and leaves. The bark is typically dark blackish or brownish grey, and the leaves are green with lobes that have bristles at the tips. This guide will ...

This week, we take a look at the seventh of our featured oak varieties in Indiana, the Black Oak or Quercus velutina. The leaves of black oak are multi-lobed, typically with seven lobes, with deep ...

Monkey-flowers of various species are putting on an excellent display this month around San Diego. Look for these low, shrublike plants with their tubular flowers wherever native vegetation ...

Black oak is deciduous but its leaves offer aesthetic appeal throughout the year, emerging pink in the spring, turning to a shiny green, and then assuming an appealing yellow-to-orange color in ...

If you have a majestic and stately oak tree (Quercus spp.) growing in your yard, you'll know that the leaves will naturally ... white, and black oaks. There appears to be multiple causes of ...

Hickory, chestnut oak, red maple add yellow. So does yellow-poplar, which is dropping a bit early already. Sugar maple leaves turn yellow or red-orange. Black oak leaves bring golden brown ...

Another oak group, and sometimes the only one present, is the red group, which includes red, black and pin oaks, to name a few. Bark, leaves, acorns and a number of lesser characters separate the ...