COMMON NAME(S):  Shingle (Laurel) Oak

LEAF: thick, smooth, lustrous dark olive green, elongated elliptical, pointed

BARK: dark and irregularly grooved

FLOWER: acorn: nearly globular, set shallowly in a saucerlike cup with close-pressed scales

GROWTH: 40 to 90 feet

DISTRIBUTION: from eastern Pennsylvania west through southern Michigan to eastern Nebraska and south to D.C to northern Georgia

LOCATION: Chapel Valley Subdivision, Quincy, IL