One of the worst culprits of fall yard mess? The red oak. Also called the northern red oak, it's a beautiful tree with idyllically shaped leaves that turns a vivacious red during the fall.

as it can spread to neighboring trees by root grafting or by sap feeding beetles and/or oak bark beetles. Northern red oak is frequently planted as an ornamental due to its bright red fall foliage.

The classic and trusted book “Fifty Common Trees of Indiana ... On the northern red oak, the alternately held leaves have veins that are palmate, or run out to the ends of the lobes from a single ...