Quercus bicolor

• BOTANICAL NAME: Quercus bicolor
• COMMON NAME: Swamp White Oak
• FAMILY: Fagaceae
• NATIVITY: Found throughout east coast
• GROWTH HABIT:  50-60’, broad, open, rounded-topped crown.
• HARDINESS:  Zone 4 to 8
• OPTIMUM GROWING CONDITIONS:  Wet, moist, even swampy conditions.
• SUCCESSIONAL STATUS:  Climax
• FACULTATIVE STATUS:  Facultative wetland
• LANDSCAPE VALUE:  Wildlife value.  Grows well in swampy soils.
• FOLIAGE:   Alternate, simple, oblong-ovate.  Dark green, extremely glossy on top and white to silver on the bottom.  Dull yellow-bronze fall color.  The apex is rounded but shallow lobes.
• BUDS:  Imbricately scaled and light chestnut color.  Dome shaped buds.  
• BARK:  Gray-brown with flaky, deep fissures that run longitudinal
• FRUIT:  Acorn, 1” and usually found in pairs.
• PESTS:  The tree is susceptible to chlorosis but not many other pests are serious.