At my site in red stone woods I found a Northern Red Oak. I identified it based on its dark reddish gray brown bark with defined ridges running down it. Other oak trees look very similar in the winter, however white oaks have very different bark. Their bark has ridges, however it does not have the reddish coloring that the red oaks have. Red oaks and oaks in general have much rougher and gnarled bark with deep ridges. Maple trees on the other hand have much smoother bark with longer ridges that aren’t as deep.
