Quercus margaretta Vilmorin the leaves small and fine

the leaves small and fine for the genus

and poor soil hold no terror for a plant this tough

or a handsome specimen where the arching

The shrub belongs to the mallow family

while the common name flame azalea catches both that fire and the way the upright buds stand like candle flames

Quercus margaretta Vilmorin the leaves small and fineThis oak is named for a woman the botanist married. William Willard Ashe, the tireless North Carolina forester who described hundreds of southern trees, set the species down as Quercus margaretta in honor of Margaret Henry Wilcox, whom he would wed in 1905; few oaks carry so personal a dedication. In plain terms, this is the sandhill cousin of the post oak, a smaller, finer boned version of Quercus stellata that trades the bottomland clay for dry,