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Quercus michauxii

Swamp Chestnut Oak, Basket Oak

Pronunciation
KWER-kus mih-SHOW-ee-eye
Family
Genus
Nativity

Delaware to Florida, west to Indiana, Missouri, and Texas

Growth Habit

Medium to large deciduous oak with a tight, narrow, rounded crown.

Hardiness
5
Culture

Light sun and moist-wet soils, best in swamp borders and ravines.

Facultative Status
Facultative Wetland
Landscape Use

It will grow to at least 40 feet under landscape conditions. Bark on young trees is quite scaly. Fall color is often bronze to red. It is worth considering for landscape use more often than it is.

Foliage

Leathery in texture with a pubescent lower side. Alternate, simple, obovate, large leaf with small lobed edges. Bronze-red in fall.

Buds

Buds are large, clustered on the terminal end. Imbricately scaled, red, pubescent

Bark

Somewhat striated, gray-brown with deep furrows.

Flower

Ornamentally insignificant flowers bloom in April-May (male in slender yellow catkins to 2-4 inches long and female in very short few-flowered reddish spikes).

Fruit

Brown acorns that are attractive to wildlife

Propagation

Seed.

Pests
None serious.

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