Meet overcup oak, a species found on swampy ground and soils in southwestern Indiana. It is identifiable by its deeply sinused alternately arranged leaves as well as its acorns, which have a cap which ...

In 1823, an acorn from an Overcup Oak tree sent up a shoot at what is now the corner of Elden and Center Streets in the Town of Herndon. In Washington, D.C., James Monroe, the 5th President of the ...

Depending on where you live, you may have noticed an unusual number of acorns dropping from oak trees recently. It appears to be a mast year in much of the D.C. region – when oaks produce a bumper ...