Use: Gardeners wanting the Northern oak look should enjoy the Shumard species with large, glossy leaves that provide good fall color. Plant as a street or shade tree for the landscape.

Sarah Cooper, right, tosses a tub of shumard oak tree seedlings onto a trailer in March 2025 at George O. White State Forest Nursery, in Licking, Missouri. The tractor takes the seedlings to a ...

Q: Our Shumard red oak has turned almost completely brown in the last few weeks before the recent cold weather. Only one branch remains healthy looking and green. The tree is growing in very rocky ...

The Quercus Shumardii, commonly known as the Shumard Oak, is a large Texas Native tree with a beautiful orange to deep red fall color, depending on the soil and weather.

Question for Dan Gill: Recently I had a large Shumard oak tree planted by a local nursery. In the process of planting, they damaged a small section (five inches by six inches) of the bark, about a ...

The outstanding deep crimson-red fall color produced by the shumard oak is an excellent reason to plant this species. In urban areas, this tree has been embraced as a hardy city species.

Oak wilt is a devastating, incurable fungus that is slowly spreading over a large part of the United States.

But there are other equally stately and beautiful species that should be used more often, such as white oak, swamp chestnut oak (also called basket oak), Shumard oak, and southern red oak.