The Basket Oak is a subset member of the white oak group. The tree is tall (upto 100 feet) with a bole diameter of more than three feet. The trunk is light gray and roughly layered in flakes. Leaves are four to eight inches long and have many pairs of rounded teeth instead of lobes. They are dark green on top and light and hairy underneath. The acorns are broad (over one inch) with large bowl shaped caps. Twigs are hairless and have quarter-inch, pointy hairless buds.

The growing region is from Texas to Virginia. Oak is a hardwood providing a major portion of the annual lumber in the United States. Oak trees are generally slow-growing and long-lived and tend to be relatively resistant to diseases and insects. Tannin is a major produce from oak bark.