Flowers:
Yellow;red (Large, yellow-brown male catkins;small, reddish female catkins; emerge early in spring)
Foliage:
Green (Crisp-looking, dark green foliage in summer); Red (Variable reddish fall color)
Fruit:
Brown (Edible, 0.75" long nut in a toothed and lobed involucre of equal length)
Soil:
Tolerant of poor, dry soils
Diagnostic Characteristics:
Leaves (2-4" long by 1.5-3" wide) are alternate, simple, doubly serrated, and pubescent above and below, with a cordate leaf base and sharply acuminate tip. Stem and petiole are both glandular pubescent.
