General Information Scientific name: Quercus shumardii Pronunciation: KWERK-us shoo-MAR-dee-eye Common name(s): Shumard oak

Shumard’s oak is a large, deciduous tree that reaches up to 100 feet (30 meters) in height. It has gray, furrowed bark and grayish-brown, dull, bud scales on the mature branchlets.

Weekly gardening column archives for the past 23 years! BE BOLD. Shape the Future. Plant Description: A large, deciduous tree that has dark green leaves that turn to red leaves in the fall. …

This large shade tree grows in bo omlands and lowlands, including sites along streams and lakes, valleys, floodplains and at the edge of swamps. It’s the host plant for several bu erflies. …

An excellent sub-stitute for Scarlet Oak in the central and S.E. USA. It thrives in moist, acid bottom land soils where poor drainage creates problems for other trees.

Shumard oak is intolerant of shade but rare in early successional stands, probably colonizing gaps in mature forests. It usually occurs as scattered trees with more prominent southern oak species of the …

Propagule Processing: Shumard's oak reproduces readily from seed. Seed has no physiological dormancy and should be sown immediately upon harvest for best results.