Quercus bicolor Willd.

• Authority

  Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp.

• Family

  Fagaceae

• Scientific Name

  Quercus bicolor Willd.

• Description

  Species Description - Tree to 30 m, with thick, dark, furrowed and flat-ridged bark; lvs obovate, cuneate to a rounded or acute base, with 6–10 pairs of coarse, irregular, rounded teeth, pale or whitened beneath with pubescence of both short, horizontally spreading and erect, few-branched stellate hairs, rather velvety to the touch; winter-buds glabrous or nearly so; peduncles (2–)4–7 cm, usually with 2 acorns; cup hemispheric, covering about half the nut, the lower scales strongly convex on the back, the upper scales long-acuminate or even caudate; nut broadly ovoid, 1.5–2.5 cm. Flood-plains and other poorly drained sites; Que. and Me. to s. Mich. and c. Minn., s. to N.C., Tenn., and n. Ark.

• Common Names

  swamp white oak