Flower Notes:
Yellow (Not ornamentally important)
Foliage Notes:
Green (Dense foliage in summer); Yellow (Fall; usually not effective)
Stem Notes:
slender, zig-zag, smooth and shining
Fruit Notes:
Cream (Interesting, pendulous clusters of bladder-like fruits (nutlets); resemble hops)
Soil Notes:
Widely adapted to soils; prefers drier soils and does not tolerate periodic flooding
Diagnostic Characteristics:
Leaves are 2-5" long and half as wide, simple, alternate, oval-lanceolate, sharply and doubly serrate, dark green above and pale green below. Leaf buds are pointed to 0.25" long. Male catkins (1" long) in clusters of 3 are visible through the winter. Smaller female catkins appear in April.
Indiana Native 
