Quercus muehlenbergii Brookgreen Gardens from late summer into fall

from late summer into fall

buttressed trunk

is among the hardest in North America

We found and propagated 'Sand Pond' from a single tree growing in Screven County

Quercus muehlenbergii Brookgreen Gardens from late summer into fallThis oak carries the name of a Pennsylvania parson. Gotthilf Heinrich Ernst Muhlenberg was a Lutheran minister who botanized on the side, thoroughly enough that the German American botanist George Engelmann named the species for him, and then misspelled it: Engelmann set an umlaut over the u that Muhlenberg never used, and the rules of botanical naming have fossilized the slip ever since, transliterating it into the tongue twisting muehlenbergii we