Flower Notes:
tan, drooping catkins at maturity
Foliage Notes:
Green (Dark green above, gray tomentose beneath)
Stem Notes:
stout, round stems that range from reddish brown to yellowish brown to greenish gray
Fruit Notes:
narrowly round capsules lining the pendulous catkin
Soil Notes:
Prefers most, fertile to dry sandy/gravelly soils.
Range:
Nova Scotia to Ontario and Minnesota south to North Carolina, Tennessee, Illinois and Iowa
Diagnostic Characteristics:
The leaves are alternate, simple, on long shoots, 3 to 4" long, about as wide, acuminate, truncate to broad-cuneate at base, coarsely sinuate dentate with callous mucronate teeth, tomentose beneath at first, soon glabrescent and glaucescent (leaves of short branches are elliptic, with sharper teeth). Petiole is glabrescent, 1 to 2 1/2" long. Buds are imbricate, 1/8 to 1/4" long, 6 to 7 visible scales, ovate to conical, pointed, generally divergent, dull, dusty-looking due to fine, close, pale pubescence especially at margin of scales.
Indiana Native 
