FAGACEAE - - Beech Family

Quercus michauxii Nuttall — Swamp Chestnut Oak

Swamp Chestnut Oak (Quercus michauxii) - Tree becoming 35 m. tall, the bark silvery white or gray, and often red-tinged, broken into thin appressed scales; leaf-blades obovate, varying to elliptic, 8—16 cm. long, coursely crenate-serrate, finely tomentose beneath; acorns sessile; cup deeply saucer-shaped or shallow-hemispheric, 25—35 mm. wide; nut ellipsoid or ellipsoid-ovoid, 30—35 mm. long.

Habitat:

Bottomland forests, especially in fertile soils of upper terraces where flooded only infrequently and for short periods, upland depression ponds, sometimes on moist lower slopes.

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

The range of Quercus michauxii (Swamp Chestnut 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)].

The Georgia range of Quercus michauxii (Swamp Chestnut Oak)

Zomlefer, W.B., J.R. Carter, & D.E. Giannasi. 2014 (and ongoing). The Atlas of Georgia Plants. University of Georgia Herbarium (Athens, Georgia) and Valdosta State University Herbarium (Valdosta, Georgia). Available at: http://www.georgiaherbaria.org/.