Flower Notes:
Yellow (Dioecious; hairy catkins (0.75-1.5") develop before the leaves emerge in the spring)
Foliage Notes:
Green (Grayish-green summer foliage; no appreciable fall color)
Stem Notes:
Gray to Greenish Brown (slender to slightly rough)
Fruit Notes:
Brown (Dehiscent seed capsule, on females only)
Soil Notes:
Prefers moist to slightly dry, loamy, sandy, or gravelly soils
Diagnostic Characteristics:
Alternate leaves 4" long by 1" wide. Narrowly ovate, oblanceolate, with smooth or slightly crenate margins (frilly). Upper surface of leaf is green grayish and slightly pubescent, lower side hairs are glaucus. Dioecious flowers.
Indiana Native 
