Oak

This amazing and rare evergreen/semi evergreen oak is native here to Salt Lake City, Utah (zone 7b) and a lot of separate areas spanning ...Read Moreall over Utah and Arizona. Quercus x pauciloba is an amazing relict species, it’s a hybrid between the native Sonoran Scrub Live Oak (Quercus turbinella) which is completely evergreen, and the Gambles Oak (Quercus gambelii) which is deciduous. The Sonoran live oak used to range up into Salt Lake City and Ogden only about 900-3,000 years ago, but the climate cooled and most of the live oaks moved further south. These are the relict populations of Live Oak that bred with the hardier Quercus gambelii. They can grow to be about 10-30 feet tall depending on water availability, and have extremely beautiful bluish/silver green elongate leathery foliage. It has one of the most beautiful foliage shapes, and colors of any evergreen live oak in the Southwest (besides rugosa and hypoleucoides).

Quercus ×pauciloba Rydb. (pro sp.) [gambelii × turbinella]

This is also known as Wavyleaf Oak.