The species behind the cultivar belongs to the verbena family
and pond margins of the eastern United States
dying back in winter and returning from the root
The habit stays fairly compact and upright
suckering gently into a colony over time
Quercus michauxii Medicinal The species behind the cultivarQuercus michauxii is a big, generous bottomland oak that borrows the best of two better known relatives: the pale, flaky, handsome bark of the white oak, and the large, coarsely toothed, chestnut shaped leaves of the chestnut oak. The result is one of the noblest of the Southern hardwoods. In Coker and Totten's Trees of the Southeastern States, a 1931 letter from James Henry Rice, Jr. of Colleton County, South Carolina, put it plainly: "It is a noble