Quercus muhlenbergii

• BOTANICAL NAME: Quercus muhlenbergii
• COMMON NAME: Yellow Oak/Chinkapin Oak
• FAMILY: Fagaceae
• NATIVITY:  Maine to Virginia; often left of the Appalachian mountains
• GROWTH HABIT: 40-50’ (80’)
• HARDINESS:  USDA Zone (4)5 to 7
• OPTIMUM GROWING CONDITIONS:  Needs calcareous soils, heavy limestone deposits drier, rocky areas and full sun.  
• SUCCESSIONAL STATUS: Climax
• FACULTATIVE STATUS: Upland
• LANDSCAPE VALUE:  Fine specimen but no single attractive feature; just nice in old age to have in the landscape
• FOLIAGE: Alternate, simple, oblong-laceolate, small sinus lobes
• BUDS:  Small, clustered, red and imbricately scaled.
• BARK:  Reddish-gray and scaled but not deeply furrowed.
• FRUIT:  Acorn
• PESTS: None serious