Corylus cornuta

Beaked hazel is in the birch or Betulaceae family and is a deciduous shrubby hazel found in most of North America, from southern Canada south to Georgia and California. It grows up to 6 m tall in dry woodlands and forest edges.

• Leaves are alternate, simple, rounded oval, coarsely double-toothed, 5–11 cm long and 3–8 cm broad, with hairy undersides.
• Species is monoecious. Male flowers form catkins up to 5 cm in length that form in the fall and pollinate in the following spring before the foliage emerges. Females are inconspicuous with only bright red stigmas and styles protruding from brown buds.
• Fruit is edible brown nuts 1.2 cm long, enclosed in long tubular husks.