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Photographer: Steve C. Garske
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Family Betulaceae
Corylus americana Walter
American hazelnut
Corylus: probably from Greek corus for "a helmet," from the involucre
americana: for America
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| Status: | Native |
| Plant: | perennial, erect, open, rounded shrub to 11' tall; smooth bark light gray; branches erect, twigs hairy |
| Flower: | winter buds widely oval with obtuse to rounds tips; male catkins on the sides of the small branches, usually in clusters of 1 or 2; blooms very early spring |
| Fruit: | nuts in clusters of 2-5, sometimes partially visible beneath the leaf-like, hairy bracts |
| Leaf: | widely oval often with straight sides; edges sharply cut to finely doubly cut; stalk very hairy |
| Habitat: | moist to dry; open woods, thickets, hillsides, roadsides, fencerows |
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