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.

Plant Description: A large, deciduous tree that has dark green leaves that turn to red leaves in the fall. Despite being a non-native variety, they are very drought tolerant. Growth Habit: Slow …

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 …

This species was named for Benjamin Franklin Shumard (1820-1869), a former state geologist of Texas who organized the the first comprehensive geological survey of Texas.

southern red oak, and swamp red oak. It is a lowland tree and grows scattered with other hardwoods on moist, well-drained soils ass. ciated with large and small streams. It grows …