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.
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Image: Quercus Michauxii Leaf
Quercus muehlenbergii, the chinquapin oak, is a deciduous species of tree in the white oak group. The species was often called Quercus acuminata in older literature. Quercus muehlenbergii is native to eastern and central North America. It ranges from Vermont to Minnesota, south to the Florida panhandle, and west to New Mexico in the United States. In Canada it is only found in southern Ontario, and in Mexico it ranges from Coahuila south to Hidalgo.
Quercus muehlenbergii
"Ruth" a Chinquapin White Oak Tree
Gotthilf Heinrich Ernst Muhlenberg, for whom Quercus muehlenbergii was named (portrait by Charles Willson Peale, 1810)
Mature tree