Shumard Oak

Description:

A positively gorgeous specimen of the shumard oak here at the college gardens, one of the largest species in the red oak group, reaching heights up to 117 feet.

Habitat:

Shumard oak is native to the Atlantic coastal plain primarily from North Carolina to northern Florida and west to central Texas; it is also found north in the Mississippi River Valley to central Oklahoma, eastern Kansas, Missouri, southern Illinois, Indiana, western and southern Ohio, Kentucky, and Tennessee. It is found locally north to southern Michigan, southern Pennsylvania, Maryland, western New York, and the extreme south of Ontario, Canada.