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Quercus velutina L'Hér. ex A.DC. 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.
Quercus michauxii, the swamp chestnut oak, is a species of oak in the white oak section Quercus section Quercus in the beech family. It is native to bottomlands and wetlands in the southeastern and midwestern United States, in coastal states from New Jersey to Texas, inland primarily in the Mississippi–Ohio Valley as far as Oklahoma, Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana.
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.
Pin oak (Quercus palustris), swamp white oak (Quercus bicolor), willow oak (Quercus phellos), tulip tree (Liriodendron tulipifera), [dubious – discuss] sour gum, and sweet bay magnolia are associates. [6] [page needed] Poison ivy (Toxicodendron radicans) and Japanese honeysuckle (Lonicera japonica) are often abundant and grow in thickets.
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
Pedunculate oak – Quercus robur; Pin oak – Quercus palustris; Red oak – Quercus rubra, Quercus coccinea; Scarlet oak – Quercus coccinea; Scrub oak – Quercus macrocarpa; Sessile oak – Quercus petraea; Spanish oak – Quercus coccinea, Quercus rubra; Spotted oak – Quercus velutina; Swamp oak – Quercus palustris, Quercus bicolor
Quercus: oaks; Quercus alba: white oak Fagaceae (beech family) Yes IUCN (LC) 82 Quercus bicolor: swamp white oak Fagaceae (beech family) Yes 84 Quercus buckleyi: Texas red oak Fagaceae (beech family) Yes Yes Yes Yes IUCN (LC) 8513 Quercus coccinea: scarlet oak Fagaceae (beech family) Yes IUCN (LC) 86 Quercus emoryi: emory oak Fagaceae (beech ...
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.