Sublime

Oak.

live oak, the only evergreen oak species,

Bur oak, mossy cup oak, yellow oak, chinkapin oak, sandbar willow, swamp birch, Bicknell’s hawthorn, mountain winterberry, sweet bay magnolia, swamp cottonwood, northern mountain ash, northern white cedar.

This, the most widely distributed tree in North America with close kin on three continents, all at once feels unbearably rare. She

single tree might yield as many as fourteen thousand planks.