Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Leaves of a swamp chestnut oak - Sarah Macor/Shutterstock If there's a swampy corner in your backyard, the swamp chestnut oak ...

Swamp chestnut oak has chestnut-like foliage and is a major component of forests that used to be made up of both oaks and chestnut trees before chestnuts were almost wiped off the American landscape ...

All of the 400 or so species of oaks in the world belong to the genus Quercus, and North Americans are blessed with about 100 of them. You may have heard that American oaks, that is, those in the ...

This oak and Q. michauxii were previously both described as Q. prinus, and are often still confused for each other. Chestnut oaks are long-lived trees which filled the gap left in eastern American ...