Shumard Oak

Shade tree. Relatively conical or oval in form. Straight trunk.

Not salt tolerant of inundation by salty or brackish water.



Low/no tolerance of salty wind or direct salt spray

Acorns used by mammals and birds.

Wet calcareous hammocks, wetland edges and floodplains. Sometimes in bluff microsites.

• Fall color, Interesting foliage, Hurricane wind resistance
• Larval host for the white-m hairstreak and Horace's duskywing.