It is a native plant. Native to Belleau Woods where 9,000 US Marines died in WWI.
Tree hugger’s don’t like this gesture, they can come see me.
Oooorah! The Marine Brigades!
In 1918, Marines of the Fifth and Sixth Regiments, by their heroic deeds of valor, inscribed the names of momentous and brilliant battles on the pages of Marine Corps history, as well as on their own regimental battle colors. They have the single honor of being the only two regiments in the American Expeditionary Force to receive three citations—two in the Orders of the Army and one in the Orders of the Corps—the Fourragere and the Croix de Guerre with two Palms and one Gilt Star.
Quercus petraea, commonly known as the sessile oak, Cornish oak, or durmast oak, is a species of oak tree native to most of Europe and into Anatolia and Iran. The sessile oak is an unofficial emblem in Wales and Cornwall.