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Photographer: Kitty Kohout
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Family Betulaceae
Corylus cornuta Marshall subsp. cornuta
beaked hazelnut
Corylus: probably from Greek corus for "a helmet," from the involucre
cornuta: bearing horns or spurs, usually the flowers
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| Status: | Native |
| Plant: | perennial, open and spreading shrub to 16' tall; smooth, light brown bark; branches rising |
| Flower: | oval winter buds with sharp point; stalked male catkins usually in clusters of 2-3 along the sides of the small branches; blooms in early spring |
| Fruit: | nuts in clusters of 2-6, completed hidden beneath the leaf-like, densely hairy, long-beaked, tubular bracts, the beak more than 2 times the total length of the nut |
| Leaf: | stalked, oval to narrowly elliptic with slight lobes near the tip; edges coarsely, irregularly, doubly toothed |
| Habitat: | moist to dry; woods edges, roadsides, fencerows, thickets |
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