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American Hazelnut Cluster

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Left cluster is ready to pick. Right cluster is a little more ripe and some nuts have fallen out.

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Catkins

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Leaves

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Beaked Hazelnut Cluster

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- medium-large shrub that forms dense thickets
- 6-40 stems grow clumped from the base of the shrub
- stems are often crooked and lean
- alternate, roughly toothed, oval, 2-5 inch long leaves that turn orange to red or purple in the fall
- nuts grow in tight clusters of up to 15 at the branch tips
- nuts are hard shelled, smooth, light brown when ripe
- each nut is wrapped in a pair of ruffled leaves with sticky hairs OR tapering tube/ "beak" with tiny spines (Corylus cornuta)

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American hazelnut occurs in moist to dry woods and thickets, forest margins, roadsides, and fencerows and other disturbed areas. It grows best on rich, moist, well-drained soils but often may be found close to streamsides and also grows on prairies.

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Nuts are ripe July - October