Swamp white oak
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The Swamp white oak, Quercus bicolor, is one of the more important white oaks for lumber production. It is a tree of wetlands, as its name implies, but grows farther north than the other wetland white oaks (Swamp chestnut oak and Overcup oak). It is not a large tree, typically growing to 20-25m tall, with the tallest known reaching 29m.
The leaves are always more or less glaucous on the back, and the leaves are shallowly lobed/coarsely toothed, intermediate between the Chestnut oak and the White oak. The bark resembles the White oak.
In recent years, the swamp white oak has become a popular landscaping tree, partly due to its relative ease of transplanting.