Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Rosids: Fabids: Fagales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Quercus michauxii
FAMILY
Fagaceae
Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
You may also want to check Trees, Shrubs, and Woody Vines of North Carolina
Read Edible Wild Plants: Oak from Lytton Musselman and the Southern Appalachian Botanical Society.
Learn more from the Vascular Plants of North Carolina website.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Quercus michauxii
FAMILY
Fagaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 055-03-007:
Quercus michauxii
FAMILY
Fagaceae
COMMON NAME:
Swamp Chestnut Oak, Basket Oak
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_qumi_001_lvd
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / USDA Wetland flora: Field office illustrated guide pnd_qumi_004_lvd
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JK Marlow jkm090221_052
February Richland County SC
Congaree National Park
Leaves mostly obovate, w rounded teeth, hairs of leaf undersurface in clusters, per Weakley's Flora.
COMPARE
leaves of Chestnut Oaks and Chinquapin Oaks
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JK Marlow jkm090221_053
February Richland County SC
Congaree National Park
Bark thick, light gray, with scaly plates, similar to that of white oak, per Native Trees of the Southeast, An Identification Guide.
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_q_michauxii_leaves
September
Leaves generally broader relative to length than those of Chestnut Oak, per Native Trees of the Southeast, An Identification Guide.
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Quercus michauxii
FAMILY
Fagaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Quercus michauxii
FAMILY
Fagaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 055-03-007:
Quercus michauxii
FAMILY
Fagaceae
1191
Tree
Perennial
Monoecious
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Documented growing wild in GA NC SC
Common (uncommon in Piedmont, rare in Mountains)
Look for it in bottomland forests, esp in fertile soils of upper terraces where flooded only infrequently & for shorter periods, upland depression ponds, per Weakley's Flora
Click here to see a more detailed map from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium,
or click here to see a map from SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
...Moist
LEAVES:
Deciduous
Simple
Alternate, 5-ranked
FLOWER:
Spring
Unisexual
Staminate calyx 2-8 lobed, pistillate calyx 6-lobed
Petals absent
3-12 stamens in staminate flowers
Staminate flowers in clustered drooping catkins
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Acorn
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Gardening with Native Plants of the South p048
- Gardening with the Native Plants of Tennessee p310
- Landscaping with Native Trees p205
- Field Guide to Native Oak Species of Eastern North America p060
- Native Trees of the Southeast, An Identification Guide p182
- Trees of the Southeastern United States p279
- Woody Plants of the Southeastern US: A Winter Guide p274