Coast live (live meaning evergreen) oak is one of the oaks you see in the distance in the hills and grasslands. Large remnant trees are found in neighborhoods that have grown up around them. It is also probably the most widely planted native California oak in urban locations and there are many in Larkspur neighborhoods. It is a tree that is supremely suited to our wet winter/dry summer climate and, once established, will thrive without summer irrigation in years of normal rainfall.

It grows to 60 ft. and more with a dense, round canopy.

Ward St, west of bike path

106 Baltimore

 Old, established oaks often suffer from construction impacts and installation of lawns and flower beds. Wise landscape designers lessen these impacts by protecting the root zone during construction, allowing leaf litter to remain under the trees and keeping water needy plants a distance away.