Red oak may refer to:
- Lobatae, a group of oak trees
- Quercus rubra, the northern red oak, a tree native to southeastern Canada and the northeastern United States
- Agkistrodon contortrix, a venomous snake species found in North America
Red Oak may refer to several place names in the United States:
- Red Oak, Georgia
- Red Oak, Iowa, a town in southwestern Iowa
- Red Oak, North Carolina
- Red Oak, Oklahoma
- Red Oak, Texas
- Red Oaks Mill, New York
Famous quotes containing the words red and/or oak:
“To-night the winds begin to rise
And roar from yonder dropping day:
The last red leaf is whirl’d away,
The rooks are blown about the skies;
The forest crack’d, the waters curl’d,
The cattle huddled on the lea;”
—Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)
“Alas for America as I must so often say, the ungirt, the diffuse, the profuse, procumbent, one wide ground juniper, out of which no cedar, no oak will rear up a mast to the clouds! It all runs to leaves, to suckers, to tendrils, to miscellany. The air is loaded with poppy, with imbecility, with dispersion, & sloth.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)