Swamp Chestnut Oak

Quercus michauxii

native · Central Texas

Swamp Chestnut Oak is a tree native to Central Texas that grows 48–100 ft tall and 40 ft wide. It wants full sun or part shade and medium water, and handles clay soil. Blooms yellow in mid spring. Good for birds and butterflies.

Wet ground only. Usually found in wetlands and creek bottoms. It wants reliably moist ground and struggles in a dry upland bed.

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The facts

6 sources

Type: Tree
Sun: Full sun to part shade (3–6 hrs of direct sun)
Water: Medium
Height: 48–100 ft
Spread: 40 ft
Bloom: Mid Spring · yellow
Foliage: Deciduous or dies back in winter
Soil: Takes clay · recorded on calcareous, clay, deep, loam, moist, rich, well drained
Wildlife: Supports birds and butterflies

Where it grows

No Level IV record in the launch area yet. Recorded in these Texas ecoregions:

Gulf Coast Prairies and MarshesWestern Gulf Coastal Plain

1 occurrence record in Central Texas (GBIF).

Can you buy it?

Also grows here — hard to find. Native and recorded growing in Central Texas, but not on the grower stock lists we read. Sourcing varies: some are stocked widely, others you will have to hunt for.

also grows from seed It starts readily from seed, so a packet from a native-seed supplier, or seed collected with permission, is often the easiest way to get a plant no nursery pots.