BASKET OAK; Cow OAK (Quercus Michauxii, Nutt.). 60 to 100 feet. Handsome, tall tree, with compact, round head of stiff ascending branches and stout twigs, dark green, hairy. Bark scaly, silvery or ashy gray, with tinge of red. Wood similar in qualities and used as other white-oak lumber. Leaves obovate, straight-veined, regularly and shallowly lobed by undulating lines, into finger points; surface lustrous, dark green; lining white, pubescent. Autumn color, crimson.
Flowers as in preceding species. Acorns paired, on short stem, oval, pointed, brown, in shallow, scaly cup that is flat-bot tomed, lined with down. Kernel sweetest, most edible among eastern species. Dist.: Swamps and flood plains, Delaware to Florida; west to Illinois, Missouri, and Texas. Important timber tree. Considered the southern form of the preceding species.