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Cephalanthus occidentalis: Architect of the Shallow Water World
Woodlanders Botanical Essay Architect of the Shallow Water World Cephalanthus occidentalis, the quiet engineer of wetlands, and what it means to be an edge species in an edge era....
Baccharis halimifolia (Manglier): Medicine Along the Marsh Edge
Drive the Atlantic or Gulf coast in late fall and you might think it has snowed along the ditches. There, at the edges where the land hesitates and then...
Quercus stellata: The Reluctant Monarch of Poor Soils
Woodlanders Field Notes | PHOTO BY STEPHANIE BRUNDAGE Quercus stellata: Post Oak, Boundary Tree Some trees feel like they’re just passing through a place. Post oak, Quercus stellata, feels...
Sunquat: The Forgotten Hybrid with a Future
A Citrus That Slips Between Categories There is a citrus you can bite into whole, peel and all, with none of the puckering violence of a lemon and none of...
Why Quercus alba Must Return
If Quercus alba could write its autobiography, it might end with gratitude. Not for the ships it built or the barrels it sealed, but for the overlooked gardeners and land...
A Tang of Tenacity: The History of Cold-Hardy Citrus Varieties
The development of cold-hardy citrus didn’t begin in a backyard orchard—it began in the laboratories and trial fields of early 20th-century horticulturalists. These early scientists, often working in southern universities...
A Journey Through the Hypericum Genus
The name “St. John’s Wort” conjures images of golden summer blooms and herbal remedies meant to lift the spirit. Yet, behind this familiar name lies the expansive Hypericum genus, encompassing over...
The Wild Blueberries of the South
"In the leanest sandhill or beneath the pine’s green hush, there grows a shrub that asks little, gives much, and remembers a time before concrete and imported ornament. That shrub...