? Swamp Chestnut Oak
Leaf and bark
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae Division: Magnoliophyta Class: Magnoliopsida Order: Fagales Family: Fagaceae Genus: Quercus Subgenus: Quercus Species: Q. michauxii
Binomial name
Quercus michauxii Nutt.

The Swamp Chestnut Oak, Quercus michauxii, is a large oak of bottomlands and wetlands in the mid-south United States, and is in the white oak section, Quercus sect. Quercus. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (900x600, 65 KB)Leaf and bark of Swamp chestnut oak (Quercus michauxii). ... Scientific classification or biological classification is how biologists group and categorize extinct and living species of organisms (as opposed to folk taxonomy). ... Divisions Land plants (embryophytes) Non-vascular plants (bryophytes) Marchantiophyta - liverworts Anthocerotophyta - hornworts Bryophyta - mosses Vascular plants (tracheophytes) Lycopodiophyta - clubmosses Equisetophyta - horsetails Pteridophyta - true ferns Psilotophyta - whisk ferns Ophioglossophyta - adderstongues Seed plants (spermatophytes) †Pteridospermatophyta - seed ferns Pinophyta - conifers Cycadophyta - cycads Ginkgophyta - ginkgo Gnetophyta - gnetae Magnoliophyta - flowering plants Adiantum pedatum (a fern... Classes Magnoliopsida- Dicots Liliopsida- Monocots The flowering plants (also called angiosperms) are a major group of land plants. ... Young castor oil plant showing its prominent two embryonic leaves (cotyledons), that differ from the adult leaves Dicotyledons or dicots is a name for a group of flowering plants whose seed typically contains two embryonic leaves or cotyledons. ... Families included in the Kew list: Fagaceae - Beech family   (including Nothofagaceae) Betulaceae - Birch family Corylaceae - Hazel family Ticodendraceae not included in the Kew list: Casuarinaceae - She-oak family Juglandaceae - Walnut family Rhoipteleaceae Myricaceae The Fagales are an order of flowering plants, including some of the best known trees. ... Genera Castanea - Chestnuts Castanopsis Chrysolepis - Golden chinkapin Colombobalanus Fagus - Beeches Formanodendron Lithocarpus - Stone oaks Nothofagus - Southern beeches Quercus - Oaks Trigonobalanus The family Fagaceae, or beech family, is characterized by alternate leaves with pinnate venation, flowers in the form of catkins, and fruit in the form of nuts, one to seven... This article is about oaks (Quercus desert-oak is unrelated, and instead belongs to the genus Allocasuarina. ... In biology, binomial nomenclature is the formal method of naming species. ... Thomas Nuttall (January 5, 1786 - September 10, 1859) was an English botanist and zoologist, who lived and worked in America from 1808 until 1842. ... Species See List of Quercus species The term oak can be used as part of the common name of any of several hundred species of trees and shrubs in the genus Quercus, and some related genera, notably Cyclobalanopsis and Lithocarpus. ... Genus Quercus Subgenus Quercus Typical oaks. ...

The Swamp Chestnut Oak closely resembles the Chestnut Oak, Quercus prinus, and for that reason has sometimes been treated as a variety of that species. However, the Swamp Chestnut Oak is a larger tree which differs in preferred habitat, and the bark does not have the distinctive deep, rugged ridging of the Chestnut Oak. The tallest specimen currently known is 40m tall. Binomial name Quercus prinus The Chestnut oak (Quercus prinus, or Quercus montana in some references) is one of the chestnut oak subgroup of the white oak group, genus Quercus section Quercus. ...

The leaves of the Swamp Chestnut Oak are simple with large, rounded simple teeth, similar to the Chestnut Oak or the Chinkapin Oak, Quercus muehlenbergii, although they generally do not achieve the more slender form that those trees may exhibit at times. Categories: Plant stubs | Oaks ...

The Swamp Chestnut Oak is also called the "Cow Oak" because of its large, relatively sweet (for an oak) acorns, which are readily eaten by livestock. However, these trees will only bear heavy crops at intervals of several years. Acorns of Sessile Oak The acorn is the fruit of oaks (genera Quercus, Lithocarpus and Cyclobalanopsis, in the family Fagaceae). ...

This tree is also called the "Basket Oak" because of its high-quality wood, which can be sliced into flexible strips suitable for basket weaving. The wood is usually marketed with White oak. Binomial name Quercus alba L. The White oak (Quercus alba) is one of the most magnificent of oaks. ...

The Swamp Chestnut Oak grows throughout most of the southern United States, from Missouri to the Atlantic coast, and barely makes it north of the Ohio River. Official language(s) none, English most common Capital Jefferson City Largest city Kansas City Area  - Total  - Width  - Length  - % water  - Latitude  - Longitude Ranked 21st 69,709 mi²; 180,693 km² 240 mi; 385 km 300 mi; 480 km 1. ... The Atlantic Ocean is Earths second-largest ocean, covering approximately one_fifth of its surface. ... Ohio River viewed from Liberty Hill in Ripley, Ohio. ...

This species makes a beautiful, large garden tree, and is quite easy to grow if it is not subject to extreme urban conditions.