Species profile
Red Oak
Quercus rubra
23,720 on Toronto's streets — 3.44% of the city's catalogued canopy.
🍁 Fall colour Oct 15 – Nov 5: deep red, holds leaves late
Toronto history — Native oak. Long-lived, good fall colour, increasingly favoured in current plantings for its ecological value — oaks support hundreds of native insect species. Many of Toronto's red oaks are post-2000 plantings and still relatively small.
Quercus rubra, the northern red oak or common red oak, is an oak tree in the red oak group. It is a native of North America, in the eastern and central United States and southeast and south-central Canada. It has been introduced to small areas in Western Europe, where it can frequently be seen cultivated in gardens and parks. It prefers good soil that is slightly acidic. Often simply called red oa
Planting profile (from the City of Toronto)
| Native to | Native to Ontario |
| Mature size | Large, 20m high by 15m wide |
| Growth rate | Slow |
| Sensitivity | Hardy |
| Best site | Lawns and boulevards |
| Plants under overhead wires | Yes |
Where they cluster
| Neighbourhood | Trees |
|---|---|
| The Beaches | 944 |
| West Humber-Clairville | 474 |
| Rosedale-Moore Park | 470 |
| Edenbridge-Humber Valley | 425 |
| High Park-Swansea | 423 |
| Birchcliffe-Cliffside | 367 |
| Stonegate-Queensway | 360 |
| Kingsway South | 356 |