Quercus oglethorpensis Burkwood & Skipwith and cinnamon bark that peels

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

where the plant was quietly in cultivation

deep golden-yellow flowers

From a large bulb rise broad

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

Quercus oglethorpensis Burkwood & Skipwith and cinnamon bark that peelsFew 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