Quercus ×pauciloba(×) 'Dolores River' Russell

Full name:

Quercus ×pauciloba(×) 'Dolores River' Russell, Int. Oaks 30:362 (2019)Cultivar name has been accepted as Registered is an accepted name.

Infrageneric Classification:

Subgenus Quercus, Section Quercus

Parentage:

Q. gambelii Nutt. × Q. turbinella Greene

Nomenclature Note:

Found growing in Montrose County, Colorado by Allan Taylor in the mid 1990s. Named for the nearby river system on the same name.

Description:

Selected for its powdery-blue, spiny foliage and the low, speading form. The ortet is 4.5 × 9 m.

Nomenclatural Standard:

8266 HILL