Quercus michauxii Nuttall. Common name: Basket Oak, Swamp Chestnut Oak. Phenology: Apr-May; Sep-Oct (of the same year). Habitat: Bottomland forests, especially in fertile soils of upper terraces where flooded only infrequently and for short periods, upland depression ponds, sometimes on moist lower slopes. Distribution: NJ south to n. peninsular FL and west to e. TX and se. OK, north in the interior to s. IL and s. IN.
Origin/Endemic status: Endemic
Taxonomy Comments: See discussion under Q. montana about the application of the name Q. prinus Linnaeus.
Synonymy ⓘ: = Ar, C, F, Fl2, FNA3, G, GW2, Il, K4, Mo3, NS, POWO, RAB, S13, Tn, Va, W, WH3; = n/a — Pa; = Quercus prinus L. — S, Tat, Tx, name rejected (possibly misapplied and a source of confusion). Basionym: Quercus michauxii Nutt. 1818 "Urbasionym:" Quercus prinus L. 1753
Links to other floras: = Quercus michauxii - FNA3
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Wetland Indicator Status:
- Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain: FAC (taxonomic lump from wetland indicator species)
- Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain: FACW (taxonomic lump from wetland indicator species)
- Eastern Mountains and Piedmont: FACW
- Great Plains: FACW
- Midwest: FACW
- Northcentral & Northeast: FACW
Heliophily ⓘ: 5
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native range: southeastern United States
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