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Swamp white oak

swamp white oak
Scientific classification
Domain:Eukaryota
Kingdom:Plantae
Division:Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order:Fagales
Family:Fagaceae
Genus:Quercus
Species:bicolor
Binomial name
Quercus bicolor

The swamp white oak, Quercus bicolor, is one of the more important white oaks for lumber production. It is a tree of wetlands, as its name implies, but grows farther north than the other white oaks of wetlands (swamp chestnut oak, overcup oak).

The leaves are always more or less glaucous on the back, and the leaves are shallowly lobed/coarsely toothed, intermediate between the chestnut oak and the white oak. The bark resembles the white oak.

In recent years, the swamp white oak has become a popular landscaping tree, partly due to its relative ease of transplanting.