Post oak leaves have distinctive cross shape. John Nelson. ... Some species, of course, are called “scrub oaks”, which seems to me a bit of a botanical “put-down”, ...

The 1.5-mile Eastern Pondhawk Hiking Trail is a sandy path that winds through slash pine and scrub oak. Birdwatchers might spot osprey, the red-bellied woodpecker, killdeer or the northern cardinal.

In Southern California, a place where most everything is new, botanists have discovered something very old: a scrub oak that has been cloning itself for at least 13,000 years.

A hybrid scrub oak that looks like a tall, overgrown shrub in a Salt Lake City historical park is a rare and ancient tree from a time when Utah and the Great Basin were warmer and wetter.

Now that it is December, fastidious gardeners are relieved that most of the leaves have fallen and that the rake has been relegated to the garden shed. But just to ...