Quercus michauxii Nuttall. Subgenus: Quercus. Section: Quercus. Subsection: Albae. Basket Oak, Swamp Chestnut Oak. Phen: Apr-May; Sep-Oct (of the same year). Hab: 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. Dist: 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, K1, K3, K4, RAB, S13, Tn, Va, W, WH3; = n/a – Pa; = Quercus prinus L. – S, Tat, Tx, name rejected (possibly misapplied and a source of confusion)

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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