Quercus incana Gulfstream Nursery and the one that appears

and the one that appears in the Man'yoshu

this summersweet holds sizeable spikes of pure white flowers bolt upright over dark green foliage

and in fall the purplish-green foliage colors up before dropping late

a nod to the streamsides and dry watercourses where oleander naturally takes hold

the familiar red-maple signal that winter is loosening

Quercus incana Gulfstream Nursery and the one that appearsThe name is the whole description: incana means hoary, gray haired, and bluejack oak wears a coat of fine pale hairs that turns the foliage a soft blue gray, almost silver in some lights, unusual in a genus that mostly trades in greens. Quercus incana is another oak of the longleaf sandhills, the dry, open, fire run uplands from the Carolinas to Texas, where the tree grows alongside turkey oak and the pines on the poorest, driest sand in the South.