Description ³

• Shape: Multi-stemmed shrub
• Leaf/Branch Arrangement: Alternate
• Flower: Males; yellow/brown elongated cluster – catkin, 3 inches long Female; brown bud, red stiles at tip
• Leaves: 2½-5 inches long, 1¼-3 inches wide, widest above the middle, taper to sharply pointed tip, rounded to somewhat heart-shaped base, edges coarsely double-toothed
• Bark: new twigs red-brown-grayish and densely covered in mix of soft, white hairs and bristly glandular hairs, older bark light gray/brown with scattered white lenticels and eventually develops a criss-cross pattern
• Fruit/Seed: round nut, 1/3-½ inch diameter, within green husk, husk is up to twice as long as nut and jagged and ruffled at tip
• Height: 4-16 feet
• Flowering: April - May
• Habitat: open woods, thickets, savanna, prairie

Sources and Credits

1. (c) peggyo, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by peggyo
2. (c) Cranbrook Science, some rights reserved (CC BY), https://www.flickr.com/photos/cranbrooksci/6550798581/
3. (c) Minnesota Scientific and Natural Areas, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA)

More Info

• iNat taxon page
• Biodiversity Heritage Library
• BOLD Systems BIN search
• Calflora
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• eFloras.org
• Flora of North America (beta)
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
• Go Botany
• HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants
• IPNI (with links to POWO, WFO, and BHL)
• Jepson eFlora
• Maryland Biodiversity Project
• NatureServe Explorer 2.0
• New Zealand Plant Conservation Network
• OregonFlora.org
• SEINet Symbiota portals
• Tropicos
• USDA PLANTS database
• VASCAN by Canadensys
• World Flora Online

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