Quercus imbricaria Pollinator Tarflower belongs to the fire-shaped

Tarflower belongs to the fire-shaped scrub and sandy pine flatwoods of Florida and the neighboring Deep South

in colder spots the plant makes a fragrant container specimen to shelter through winter

and pair with Clethra alnifolia

knitting into a tidy mound at a shaded path

Quercus imbricaria Pollinator Tarflower belongs to the fire-shapedShingle oak is the oak that fools people, an oak with no lobes at all. The glossy, dark green leaves are long, entire, and laurel like, closer to a rhododendron or a bay than to the deep cut foliage of most oaks, and only the single bristle at each leaf tip gives the family away. A medium to large deciduous tree of forty to sixty feet, neat and pyramidal when young and rounding with age, the tree brings a clean, distinctive texture that few other