Probable hardiness USDA Zone 3. Quercus prinoides Willd. Dwarf Chinkapin Oak. Native from central Oklahoma and east Texas east to Alabama, New Jersey and north from Maine to southern Michigan, northern Illinois, southern Iowa, and southeastern Nebraska, this White-oak group plant is found in open upland woodlands, forest edges, and roadsides. Dwarf chinkapin oak can form thickets of up to 7 feet tall and occasionally in the wild grows as small trees of up to 13 feet tall.
Leaves are bright green and glabrous above, grayish tomentulose beneath.
In autumn they can turn a rich dark red. Ames 23752 was donated as seedlings by the Nebraska Statewide Arboretum . We did note last summer that leaves of some plants had mild cases of powdery mildew. Probable hardiness USDA Zone 4. Bill Radler, former director of Boerner Botanical Gardens , developed these two shrub rose cultivars.