Quercus geminata Medicinal and the occasional hummingbird all

and the occasional hummingbird all summer long

rock and gravel gardens

smooth-edged

marking the Gulf Coast home of the Florida azalea

lying down

Quercus geminata Medicinal and the occasional hummingbird allSand live oak is the live oak of the sandhills, a tough, evergreen cousin of the great Southern live oak scaled for drier, leaner ground. Where Quercus virginiana spreads into a vast shade tree, this species usually stays a small tree or even a shrub, dark and dense and salt proof, holding leathery evergreen leaves through the year on the deep, dry sands of the coastal plain. The two are close kin, long lumped together, and the telling differences are