Quercus michauxii Medicinal Doubly compound and among the

Doubly compound and among the largest leaves of any native tree

dying back in winter and returning from the root

The species behind the cultivar belongs to the verbena family

suckering gently into a colony over time

velvety scarlet stop traffic in any garden

Quercus michauxii Medicinal Doubly compound and among theQuercus 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