The Southern Red Oak (Quercus falcata) in Great Falls spent most of its life — a reported 200+ years — well-lived and protected in the right-of-way along Georgetown Pike. Known as the “summer road,” ...

With nearly 500 unique species and more than 180 hybrids, the genus Quercus (oak) is among the largest and most important of all woody landscape plants. Many of the species we are most familiar with ...