FAGACEAE - - Beech Family

Quercus bicolor Willdenow — Swamp White Oak

Swamp White Oak (Quercus bicolor) - Tree sometimes becoming 36 m. tall, the bark gray-brown and often red-tinged, broken into broad ridges by more or less irregular fissures; leaf-blades obovate to elliptic-obovate, 5—20 cm. long, coursely toothed, usually cuneate at the base, densely white-tomentose beneath; acorns long-stalked; cup saucer-shaped or depressed-hemispheric, 20—25 mm. wide, with some of the bracts prolonged; nut ellipsoid or ellipsoid-ovoid, 20—25 mm. long, or slightly longer.

Habitat:

Upland depression swamp forests over mafic rocks such as gabbro or diabase, bottomland swamps with calcareous sediments.

Habitat information from:
Weakley, Alan S., Flora of the Southern and Mid-Atlantic States, Working Draft of 21 May 2015.

The range of Quercus bicolor (Swamp White Oak)

Kartesz, J.T., The Biota of North America Program (BONAP). 2015. North American Plant Atlas. (http://bonap.net/napa). Chapel Hill, N.C. [maps generated from Kartesz, J.T. 2015. Floristic Synthesis of North America, Version 1.0. Biota of North America Program (BONAP). (in press)].