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Quercus bicolor, the swamp white oak, is a North American species of medium-sized trees in the beech family. It is a common element of America's north central and northeastern mixed forests. It is a common element of America's north central and northeastern mixed forests.
Oaks include white oak (Quercus alba), northern red oak (Quercus rubra), post oak (Quercus stellata), chinkapin oak (Quercus muehlenbergii), and Shumard oak (Quercus shumardii). Hickories include shagbark hickory (Carya ovata). Other trees can be sugar maple (Acer saccharum), eastern red-cedar (Juniperus virginiana), or pines. [5]
Swamps and floodplains occur where standing water is present for only some parts of the year. Red maple is a common tree, and can be found with swamp tupelo, white ash, American elm, pin oak (Quercus palustris), swamp white oak (Quercus bicolor), and silver maple (Acer saccharinum). Spicebush is a common shrub.
Quercus kelloggii (California black oak) [158] Similar to northern red oak , the wood is suitable for paneling, furniture, carpentry and pallets. It has the widest distribution in California among the western oaks.
The genus Quercus contains about 500 known species, plus about 180 hybrids between them. [1] The genus, as is the case with many large genera, is divided into subgenera and sections. Traditionally, the genus Quercus was divided into the two subgenera Cyclobalanopsis, the ring-cupped oaks, and Quercus, which included
Prunus serotina, commonly called black cherry, [3] wild black cherry, rum cherry, [4] or mountain black cherry, [5] is a deciduous tree or shrub [4] in the rose family Rosaceae. Despite its common names, it is not very closely related to commonly cultivated cherries .
Quercus rubra var. pagodifolia (Elliott) Ashe Quercus pagoda , the cherrybark oak , is one of the most highly valued red oaks in the southern United States. It is larger and better formed than southern red oak and commonly grows on more moist sites.
The western subdomain is drier than the eastern subdomain, and the northern red oak (Quercus rubra) is more common in the east. [2] The maple / yellow birch domain covers the slopes and hills that border the southern Laurentian plateau and the Appalachians, and is the most northern domain of the deciduous forest sub-zone.