On this edition of ID That Tree, Purdue Extension forester Lenny Farlee introduces you to the swamp white oak, a native Indiana species typically found in bottomlands and wet sites. This member of the ...

The swamp white oak has leaves with wavy, uneven lobed margins with blunt teeth, which are wider toward the tip than at the base. The alternately-held leaves are typically dark green on top with a ...

swamp, and live oak. The distinctions between the two are important for ecological reasons, and those differences influence how wildlife relies on them. There are three key ways to tell the difference ...

Acorn weevils, lacebugs, leaf hoppers, walking sticks ... swamp chestnut oak for their stunning fall color. Mature white oak and swamp chestnut oak also have attractive light gray shaggy bark.

Swamp white oak (Quercus bicolor) displays different shades of yellow and orange during the fall season. Hill’s oak (Q. ellipsoidalis) and bur oak (Q. macrocarpa) have leaves that change from ...

Most of us can recognize the lobed leaf of an oak: oval leaves ... Trees in the white oak group (which includes white oaks, chestnut oaks, bur oaks and swamp white oaks) all have rounded lobes ...

Leaf tatters most often appear in white oaks, which also include bur and swamp white, and others of Iowa’s 13 oak species. Hackberry trees can also be affected. Feeley said Illinois ...

White oaks (the ones with rounded lobes on their leaves) take one year to mature acorns. Animals prefer white oak acorns because red oak acorns contain tannin and taste more bitter. It takes two ...

Trees in the white oak group, which have rounded leaf edges and include white oak, swamp white oak and bur oak, are better able to block the disease’s spread and prevent rapid death. Confirmed ...

A dozen people, including Mayor Tom Poynton, helped plant a swamp white oak among the park’s ancient oaks, some of which are more than a century old. “We had a crazy microburst that really ...