Quercus oglethorpensis Burkwood & Skipwith Native as far north as

Native as far north as southeastern Virginia

and asks only a sunny to partly shaded spot with well-drained soil

A yellow-flowered butterfly bush

the plant brings strong color and structure to a sunny border

and cinnamon bark that peels away for winter interest once the leaves drop

Quercus oglethorpensis Burkwood & Skipwith Native as far north asFew 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