The Oglethorpe Oak is a subset member (with lobeless leaves) of the white oak group. It grows in only in bottomlands. The tree is short (40 feet) with a bole diameter of one foot. The trunk is gray with flaky bark. Leaves are four inches long and narrow with a blunt tip. They are shiny on top and yellow hairy underneath. The acorns are less than a half-inch long with bowl shaped caps. Twigs are hairless and have small hairless buds.

The growing region is only Georgia and Carolina. 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.