Swamp Chestnut Oak

Quercus michauxii

Fagaceae (Beech Family)

▲▼ young trees

▲▼ leaves

▲▼ leaves

▲▼ leaves

▲ buds

▲ trunk and bark

Location on campus:  retention basin, next to National Avenue, on south side of Grand

Quercus michauxii (Quercus prinus):  Swamp Chestnut Oak

      leaves alternate, deciduous, simple, obovate with shallow lobes—similar to chinkapin oak, but more hairy underneath (like swamp white oak)

      large bottomland tree with upright, open growth habit—similar to above two trees

      medium growth rate

      native to southeast Missouri