Quercus michauxii

• BOTANICAL NAME: Quercus michauxii
• COMMON NAME: Swamp Chestnut Oak
• FAMILY: Fagaceae
• NATIVITY:  North Carolina to Florida to eastern Texas.
• GROWTH HABIT: 60-70’ (100’)
• HARDINESS:  USDA Zone Zone 5 to 8(9)
• OPTIMUM GROWING CONDITIONS:  Light sun and moist-wet soils, best in swamp borders and ravines.
• SUCCESSIONAL STATUS: Climax
• FACULTATIVE STATUS: Facultative Wetland
• LANDSCAPE VALUE:  
• FOLIAGE:   Leathery in texture with a pubescent lower side.  Alternate, simple, obovate, large leaf with small lobed edges. Bronze-red in fall
• BUDS:  Large, clustered on the terminal end.  Imbricately scaled, red, pubescent
• BARK:  Somewhat striated, gray-brown with deep furrows
• FRUIT:  Acorns that are attractive to wildlife
• PESTS:  None serious