quercus Michauxii
swamp chestnut oak
The swamp chestnut oak closely resembles the chestnut oak Quercus prinus. 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, being thinner, scaly, and paler gray.
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Ecology
Although the species is widely distributed on the best well-drained loamy first-bottom ridges, it is principally found on well-drained silty clay, loamy terraces, and colluvial (rocky deposit) sites in the bottomlands of large and small streams.