Editing Quercus michauxii (section)

== Taxonomy ==
The swamp chestnut oak closely resembles the [[chestnut oak]] (''Quercus montana''), and for that reason has sometimes been treated as a variety of that species. However, the swamp chestnut oak is a larger tree which differs in preferred habitat, and the [[Bark (botany)|bark]] does not have the distinctive deep, rugged ridging of the chestnut oak, being thinner, scaly, and paler gray. It typically grows to around 65&nbsp;ft (20&nbsp;m) tall, though the tallest specimen currently known is over 150&nbsp;ft (42&nbsp;m) tall.

The name ''Q. prinus'' was long used by many botanists and foresters for the swamp chestnut oak, even when treated as a species distinct from the chestnut oak, which was then called ''Q.&nbsp;montana'', but the application of the name ''Q.&nbsp;prinus'' to the chestnut oak is now often accepted,<ref>The confusion arose from differing identifications of the [[Type (biology)|type specimens]] for the [[Carl Linnaeus|Linnaean]] name, by some (but not all) botanists considered resolved by close examination of the leaf pubescence, which differs in the two species.</ref> although sometimes that name is declared to be of uncertain position, unassignable to either species, with the chestnut oak then called ''Q.&nbsp;montana'', as in the ''Flora of North America''.<ref name="FNA Qmontana">{{eFloras|1|233501064|Quercus montana|first=Kevin C.|last=Nixon|volume=3}}</ref>