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Corylus cornuta
Also called Beaked Hazel, Beaked Filbert, Western Hazel
Beaked hazelnut is a deciduous, multi-stemmed shrub native to most of North America, valued for its edible nuts and wildlife food. It grows best in shade or part shade and tolerates many soils once established.
Corylus cornuta, the beaked hazelnut (or just beaked hazel), is a deciduous shrubby hazel with two subspecies found throughout most of North America.
Eastern beaked hazel is found from southern Canada south to Georgia, while the Western beaked hazel occurs along the west coast from Alaska to California.
The beaked hazelnut has been cultivated by the Gitxsan, Tsimshian, and Nisga'a peoples for at least 7,000 years.
American hazelnut · Hazel · Colchian Hazel · Himalayan hazelnut · Siberian hazelnut · Filbert · Hazel
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Corylus cornuta by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
