Tanoak
Notholithocarpus densiflorus
Tanoak is a stately evergreen oak relative of the Pacific Coast, with leathery leaves and acorns that were a staple food for Indigenous peoples and remain vital wildlife mast. (Susceptible to sudden oak death.)
- Family
- Fagaceae
- Type
- tree
- Lifespan
- perennial
- Height
- 30–80 ft
- Spacing
- 20–40 ft apart
- Light
- sun, part shade
- Soil moisture
- moist, dry
- Soil pH
- acidic, neutral
- Bloom
- June, July
- Bloom colors
- white, yellow
- Wildlife value
- songbirds, mammals, larval host
- Landscape uses
- specimen
- Native states
- CA, OR