Common name: Swamp Oak

Latin name: Quercus bicolor

French name: Chêne des marais

The Swamp oak was used by the Iroquois first nation group as medicine.

Swamp oaks can be found in moist bottom lands in southern Ontario, niagara and in all different places in North America. Swamp oaks are native to Chicago according to Wilhelm's Plants of the Chicago Region. The wood of a swamp oak is also good for furniture.

Swamp oaks like moist soils, tolerates seasonal flooding. They like a little bit of shade or full sun. They also like rich and slightly acidic soil.

Animals that depend on a swamp oak for food and shelter are: wood ducks, deer, turkey, and rodents such as squirrels.

Native relationship: Swamp oaks are native trees of North America. Swamp oaks can be found in moist bottom lands in southern Ontario, niagara and in all different places in north America. Swamp oaks are native to Chicago according to Wilhelm's Plants of the Chicago Region. The wood of a swamp oak is also good for furniture.

Swamp Oak can live up to 300 years and its trunk is 90cm in diameter and can grow to a height of 100 feet.

The leaf in the shape of a long oval that gets skinnier on each end with a length up to 17cm and fuzzy underneath. The sides of the leaves curve in and out around 10 times on each side. There is a stem that goes through the length of the middle of the leaf and parts out to all the curves that go out of the sides.