The habit stays fairly compact and upright
a chance hybrid among three of the southeastern native azaleas: the white
Clethra barbinervis is a tall
though large modern reviews find little benefit beyond placebo
and pond margins of the eastern United States
Quercus michauxii Medicinal The habit stays fairly compactQuercus michauxii is a big, generous bottomland oak that borrows the best of two better known relatives: the pale, flaky, handsome bark of the white oak, and the large, coarsely toothed, chestnut shaped leaves of the chestnut oak. The result is one of the noblest of the Southern hardwoods. In Coker and Totten's Trees of the Southeastern States, a 1931 letter from James Henry Rice, Jr. of Colleton County, South Carolina, put it plainly: "It is a noble