American Hazelnut, Hazelnut Filber Scientific Name: Corylus americana
Description: A shrub 3-8' high, with many deep brown, strongly ascending stems, common in hedge-rows and thickets, the ruset twigs until old, bristly and glandular.
Habitat: Common in thickets and hedge-rows.
Range: From Maine west to the valley of the Saskatchewan River, Alberta, and Kansas, and south to northern Florida. Less frequent in mountain districts.
Type: Shrub Source:Field Book of American Trees and Shrubs by F. Schuyler Mathews
Photograph: Paul Wray, Iowa State University from www.forestryimages.org. |
