Sourwood Tree

Can be identified in winter by deep furrowed rectangular shapes in bark plus they always tend to lean! Bark is also gray with a reddish tinge. Note- i have seen a botanist struggle in winter with difference between this and a sassafras.
Note - around the sourwood tree, you will see fallen sprigs of its flowers in winter.
Leaves are alternate.
It is renowned for nectar, and for the honey which is produced from i