Quercus muehlenbergii Brookgreen Gardens Johnswort points straight to the

Johnswort points straight to the wild home of the plant

Butterflies and hummingbirds work the orange flowers through the late season

buttressed trunk

We found and propagated 'Sand Pond' from a single tree growing in Screven County

from late summer into fall

Quercus muehlenbergii Brookgreen Gardens Johnswort points straight to theThis oak carries the name of a Pennsylvania parson. Gotthilf Heinrich Ernst Muhlenberg was a Lutheran minister who botanized on the side, thoroughly enough that the German American botanist George Engelmann named the species for him, and then misspelled it: Engelmann set an umlaut over the u that Muhlenberg never used, and the rules of botanical naming have fossilized the slip ever since, transliterating it into the tongue twisting muehlenbergii we