Quercus oglethorpensis Burkwood & Skipwith From a large bulb rise

From a large bulb rise broad

native to the deep

A yellow-flowered butterfly bush

depending on the nose

where the plant was quietly in cultivation

Quercus oglethorpensis Burkwood & Skipwith From a large bulb riseFew oaks in North America are rarer. Quercus oglethorpensis went unnoticed by science until 1940, when the botanist Wilbur Duncan described the tree from material gathered in Oglethorpe County, Georgia, and gave the species the county's name. Even now Oglethorpe oak is known from only a scattering of stands across the Georgia and South Carolina Piedmont, with far flung outliers in Louisiana and Mississippi, and the species sits on every serious list