Quercus oglethorpensis Burkwood & Skipwith depending on the nose

depending on the nose

where the plant was quietly in cultivation

the flowers even lather softly in water and once served as a field soap

Native as far north as southeastern Virginia

deep golden-yellow flowers

Quercus oglethorpensis Burkwood & Skipwith depending on the noseFew 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