American hazel (Corylus americana)
Family: Betulaceae
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| Form:
A large shrub ranging from 3 to 10 feet in height. It has a straight trunk with spreading, rising branches. |
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Shape: alternate Margin: oval with a cordate base Texture: doubly serrate Variation: pubescent below |
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| Bark:
It has smooth and light gray bark. |
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| Twigs and Buds:
Twigs are slender with stiff red hairs and buds are somewhat flat topped. |
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| Flowers and Fruit:
Monoecious with males flowers appearing as brown catkins and female flowers smaller, appearing as reddish threads coming from gray to brown buds. Brown nuts enclosed in a hairy, leafy husk with rough edges, mature in the late summer. |
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| Distinguishing Characteristics:
Pubescent stems, doubly serrate leaves, with pubescent leaves and is a colonial species |
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| Range:
Occurs from Maine to Saskatchewan, south to eastern Oklahoma, to Georgia, and north through New England |
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| Silvics:
Tolerant. Occurs along streams, meadows, woodlands, roadsides. It grows best on rich, moist, well-drained soils |
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