It is widely used for home furnishing, quality furniture, and craftwork. It glues well and has good bending properties, making it highly desired for cabinets, decorative plywood and millwork. Hard and strong with high impact resistance, it works fairly easily, machines well, and holds nails and screws well but should be pre-drilled. It is ring-porous with large conspicuous pores, and has broad conspicuous rays on the radial surface, giving the tangential surface the characteristic mottled look. Northern red oak is coarse grained, light red-brown, and heavy. It is tolerant of road salt, so it is often used as a street tree. Northern red oak is a valuable fast-growing oak for lawns, parks, golf courses, and commercial areas. Bark can be brown to black, with broken to wide flat ridges. Fruit is a single nut (acorn), 12-25 mm long. Leaves are 10-20 cm long by 10-13 cm wide, and oblong, with 7 to 11 toothed lobes.
It is symmetrical and beautifully coloured in the fall. And because the oaks hybridize readily in nature, new species are continually being discovered. It has a short, massive trunk and an extensive crown in the open, while in the forest it has a tall columnar bole and small rounded head. There are at least 50 species of deciduous or evergreen oak trees native to this country.
A medium-sized deciduous tree, the northern red oak can grow to 25 m tall and 30 cm in diameter with a crown spread of 18 m.
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