Quercus michauxii

Fagaceae

Coastal Plain, Mountain, Piedmont

Delaware, Maryland, New York, Virginia, West Virginia

Tall Tree (Canopy)

50 - 80ft

75 - 100ft

Green, Yellow

Nut/Nut-like; Brown

Full Sun

Loamy

Moist, Wet

May - May

red/ brown

bottomlands, ravine slopes, flatwoods over limestone

acorns food for wildlife; Nuts sweet and edible; wood used for construction, fuel; an important timber tree of the southeastern states; deer browse the leaves and twigs; the acorns are eaten by deer, black bear, racoon, all the squirrels, and even by rabbit and opossum as well as