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Quercus muehlenbergii

Chinkapin Oak, Yellow Oak

Pronunciation
KWER-kus mew-len-BER-jee-eye
Family
Genus
Nativity

Vermont to Virginia, west to Nebraska, Mexico and Texas

Growth Habit

Quercus muehlenbergii, Chinkapin Oak, is a 40 to 50 foot tall tree with an open, rounded crown at maturity.

Hardiness
5
Culture

Needs calcareous soils, heavy limestone deposits drier, rocky areas and full sun.

Facultative Status
Upland
Landscape Use

Fine specimen but no single attractive feature; just nice in old age to have in the landscape

Foliage

Lustrous dark green in summer. Alternate, simple, oblong-laceolate, small sinus lobes

Buds

Buds are small, clustered, red and imbricately scaled.

Bark

Reddish-gray and scaled but not deeply furrowed.

Flower

Insignificant, yellow-green, blooms in April.

Fruit

Acorn

Propagation

Seed.

Pests
None serious.

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