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§1 Plant
Corylus cornuta Marshall
vernacular beaked hazelnut — species · Betulaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Shrub, Tree
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Betulaceae Gray
- Genus
- Corylus
§2a
Native status, by region
- CAN Canada Native
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
- SPM St. Pierre & Miquelon Native
§2b
County-level range
· 372 counties across 19 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- Medium
- Shade
- Low
- Moisture use
- Medium
- Fire
- High
- Salinity
- None
- Anaerobic
- None
- CaCO₃
- Medium
- Hedging
- Medium
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- -47 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 90 min.
- Precipitation
- 20–80 in/yr
- pH range
- 4.8–7.5
- Root depth
- 16 in min.
- Fertility need
- Medium
- Soil texture
- medium
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Multiple Stem
- Growth rate
- Moderate
- Lifespan
- Long
- Mature height
- 15 ft
- Height @ 20 y
- 15 ft
- Foliage texture
- Coarse
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Dense
- Porosity (winter)
- Moderate
- Flower colour
- Yellow
- Fruit colour
- Brown
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- None
- Toxicity
- None
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Early Spring
- Seed abundance
- Low
- Seed begins
- Summer
- Seed ends
- Fall
- Spread rate
- Slow
- Stratify
- Yes
- Seeds / lb
- 549
- Propagation
- seed, bare root, container
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- Routinely Available
- Nursery stock
- Yes
- Browse palatability
- Medium
- Graze palatability
- Low
- Palatable, human
- Yes
- Protein potential
- Low
- Lumber
- No
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 372 counties across 19 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 7 N ▾
Delaware view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Georgia view state ↗ 21 N ▾
Illinois view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Maine view state ↗ 16 N ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 14 N ▾
Michigan view state ↗ 37 N ▾
- Alcona 26001
- Alger 26003
- Antrim 26009
- Baraga 26013
- Benzie 26019
- Charlevoix 26029
- Cheboygan 26031
- Chippewa 26033
- Crawford 26039
- Delta 26041
- Dickinson 26043
- Emmet 26047
- Gogebic 26053
- Gratiot 26057
- Houghton 26061
- Iron 26071
- Isabella 26073
- Kalkaska 26079
- Keweenaw 26083
- Lapeer 26087
- Leelanau 26089
- Luce 26095
- Mackinac 26097
- Macomb 26099
- Marquette 26103
- Midland 26111
- Missaukee 26113
- Montcalm 26117
- Montmorency 26119
- Ontonagon 26131
- Osceola 26133
- Otsego 26137
- Presque Isle 26141
- Roscommon 26143
- Saginaw 26145
- Schoolcraft 26153
- St. Clair 26147
Minnesota view state ↗ 42 N ▾
- Becker 27005
- Beltrami 27007
- Carlton 27017
- Cass 27021
- Chisago 27025
- Clearwater 27029
- Cook 27031
- Crow Wing 27035
- Dakota 27037
- Dodge 27039
- Douglas 27041
- Fillmore 27045
- Goodhue 27049
- Hennepin 27053
- Houston 27055
- Hubbard 27057
- Isanti 27059
- Itasca 27061
- Kanabec 27065
- Kittson 27069
- Koochiching 27071
- Lake 27075
- Lake of the Woods 27077
- Mahnomen 27087
- Marshall 27089
- Mille Lacs 27095
- Morrison 27097
- Olmsted 27109
- Otter Tail 27111
- Pennington 27113
- Pine 27115
- Polk 27119
- Ramsey 27123
- Red Lake 27125
- Roseau 27135
- St. Louis 27137
- Stearns 27145
- Todd 27153
- Wabasha 27157
- Washington 27163
- Winona 27169
- Wright 27171
New Hampshire view state ↗ 10 N ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 9 N ▾
New York view state ↗ 42 N ▾
- Albany 36001
- Allegany 36003
- Cattaraugus 36009
- Chemung 36015
- Chenango 36017
- Clinton 36019
- Columbia 36021
- Cortland 36023
- Delaware 36025
- Dutchess 36027
- Erie 36029
- Essex 36031
- Franklin 36033
- Greene 36039
- Hamilton 36041
- Herkimer 36043
- Lewis 36049
- Madison 36053
- Monroe 36055
- Oneida 36065
- Onondaga 36067
- Ontario 36069
- Orange 36071
- Oswego 36075
- Putnam 36079
- Rensselaer 36083
- Richmond 36085
- Rockland 36087
- Saratoga 36091
- Schoharie 36095
- St. Lawrence 36089
- Suffolk 36103
- Sullivan 36105
- Tioga 36107
- Tompkins 36109
- Ulster 36111
- Warren 36113
- Washington 36115
- Wayne 36117
- Westchester 36119
- Wyoming 36121
- Yates 36123
North Carolina view state ↗ 29 N ▾
- Alexander 37003
- Alleghany 37005
- Buncombe 37021
- Caldwell 37027
- Chatham 37037
- Cherokee 37039
- Cleveland 37045
- Davidson 37057
- Davie 37059
- Gaston 37071
- Guilford 37081
- Haywood 37087
- Iredell 37097
- Johnston 37101
- Macon 37113
- Madison 37115
- Mitchell 37121
- Orange 37135
- Polk 37149
- Rockingham 37157
- Rutherford 37161
- Stanly 37167
- Stokes 37169
- Surry 37171
- Transylvania 37175
- Union 37179
- Wake 37183
- Watauga 37189
- Yancey 37199
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 49 N ▾
- Allegheny 42003
- Armstrong 42005
- Bedford 42009
- Berks 42011
- Blair 42013
- Bradford 42015
- Bucks 42017
- Cambria 42021
- Carbon 42025
- Centre 42027
- Chester 42029
- Clearfield 42033
- Clinton 42035
- Columbia 42037
- Dauphin 42043
- Delaware 42045
- Elk 42047
- Erie 42049
- Franklin 42055
- Fulton 42057
- Huntingdon 42061
- Juniata 42067
- Lackawanna 42069
- Lancaster 42071
- Lehigh 42077
- Luzerne 42079
- Lycoming 42081
- McKean 42083
- Mifflin 42087
- Monroe 42089
- Montgomery 42091
- Montour 42093
- Northampton 42095
- Northumberland 42097
- Perry 42099
- Pike 42103
- Potter 42105
- Schuylkill 42107
- Snyder 42109
- Somerset 42111
- Sullivan 42113
- Susquehanna 42115
- Tioga 42117
- Union 42119
- Warren 42123
- Wayne 42127
- Westmoreland 42129
- Wyoming 42131
- York 42133
Rhode Island view state ↗ 4 N ▾
South Carolina view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Tennessee view state ↗ 13 N ▾
Vermont view state ↗ 13 N ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 45 N ▾
- Albemarle 51003
- Alleghany 51005
- Amherst 51009
- Appomattox 51011
- Arlington 51013
- Augusta 51015
- Bath 51017
- Bedford 51019
- Bland 51021
- Botetourt 51023
- Brunswick 51025
- Buckingham 51029
- Campbell 51031
- Carroll 51035
- Clarke 51043
- Craig 51045
- Fairfax 51059
- Fauquier 51061
- Floyd 51063
- Franklin 51067
- Frederick 51069
- Giles 51071
- Grayson 51077
- Greene 51079
- Halifax 51083
- Henry 51089
- Highland 51091
- Loudoun 51107
- Madison 51113
- Montgomery 51121
- Nelson 51125
- Page 51139
- Pittsylvania 51143
- Prince William 51153
- Pulaski 51155
- Rappahannock 51157
- Roanoke 51161
- Rockbridge 51163
- Rockingham 51165
- Shenandoah 51171
- Smyth 51173
- Spotsylvania 51177
- Surry 51181
- Warren 51187
- Wythe 51197
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/COCO6 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/2876032 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
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