The Shumard Oak is mostly of the southern US that ranges straight north to southern Michigan. It is very similar to the Scarlet and Northern Red Oaks. Its leaves get to 8 inches long x 5 inches wide and has 7 to 9 lobes with the middle pair in the middle of the leaf being the largest and longest by far and develop good red fall color. Acorns get to 1.3 inches long with a shallow, saucer-like scaly cup. It grows in the wild in both bottomlands, along watercourses, swamps, and in upland sites. It grows about 1 to 1.5 feet/year and lives about 200 to 300 years. It will grow in alkaline soils up to pH of 8.0. I've only seen it at the Morris Arboretum in Philadelphia and at Morton Arboretum in Lisle, IL. There are a few large, diverse nurseries in the North that offer it.

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