Quercus ilicifolia Woodlanders Introduction riverbanks

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The show is in the new growth

The story behind the tree is worth knowing

have been used for centuries as digestive remedies

The soft gold color makes the shrub a fine partner for ferns

Quercus ilicifolia Woodlanders Introduction riverbanksBear oak is the scrub oak of the barrens, a tough, thicket forming little oak that thrives exactly where good trees give up. Many branched and gnarled, usually a shrub or small tree well under twenty feet, the species clothes dry ridgetops, sandplains, and pine barrens across the Northeast, reaching south sparingly into the Carolinas, the small glossy leaves silvered beneath and the branches heavy in a good year with small, bitter acorns. The name is