Witch-Hazel Scientific Name: Hamamelis virginiana
Description: Trees or shrubs with alternate-growing, toothed leaves, the flowers staminate and pistillate on the same plant, or perfect, or polygamous. The fruit in capsule form.
Habitat: Common in copses or woods in wet situations.
Range: Wisconsin, southeastern Minnesota, eastern Nebraska, south to northern Florida and eastern Texas.
Type: Shrub Source:Field Book of American Trees and Shrubs by F. Schuyler Mathews
Photograph: Ted Bodner, Southern Weed Science Society from www.forestryimages.org. |
