lavender-white flowers dotted with gold and purple amid finely-textured minty leaves
layered branching creates a mounding effect
These creamy yellow-eyed posies emerge from an unusual light green ruff of surrounding leafy sepals
blooming early spring through mid-late spring at least
Flowers of modest size are prettier for the orange hues on the reverse of lemon-yellow petals and its long
Quercus vaccinifolia, Huckleberry Oak Size:0.67 qt lavender-white flowers dotted with goldA native from 3,0009,000 feet in Southern Oregon, California, and Nevada, this is an evergreen groundcover shrub oak. The catkins in May are like sprays of beaded filaments in orange and gold; later the light green and then brown acorns are conspicuously ornamentalnot what you were expecting on a low shrub. Leathery, small and wavy, occasionally toothed grey green leaves grow densely. This is a beautiful and very useful plant. Handsome, no doubt, but