Quercus incana Gulfstream Nursery this summersweet holds sizeable spikes

this summersweet holds sizeable spikes of pure white flowers bolt upright over dark green foliage

and in fall the purplish-green foliage colors up before dropping late

picturesque colonies

The stiff leathery pinnate fronds make a good show in the shady or semi-shady woodland garden or along the shady side of a wall or building

for zones 8 to 10

Quercus incana Gulfstream Nursery this summersweet holds sizeable spikesThe name is the whole description: incana means hoary, gray haired, and bluejack oak wears a coat of fine pale hairs that turns the foliage a soft blue gray, almost silver in some lights, unusual in a genus that mostly trades in greens. Quercus incana is another oak of the longleaf sandhills, the dry, open, fire run uplands from the Carolinas to Texas, where the tree grows alongside turkey oak and the pines on the poorest, driest sand in the South.