Beaked Hazelnut
Corylus cornuta
Beaked hazelnut is an adaptable understory shrub whose long male catkins dangle through winter and open before the leaves. Its nuts, wrapped in a distinctive bristly beak, feed jays, grouse, and squirrels — and are the same sweet, thin-shelled nut as a cultivated filbert, if you get to them first.
- Family
- Betulaceae
- Type
- tree
- Lifespan
- perennial
- Height
- 4–8 ft
- Spacing
- 4–8 ft apart
- Light
- sun, part shade, shade
- Soil moisture
- moist
- Soil pH
- acidic, neutral
- Bloom
- March, April, May, June
- Bloom colors
- yellow, green
- Wildlife value
- songbirds, butterflies, larval host
- Caterpillar hosts
- ~131 butterfly & moth species
- Landscape uses
- hedge or screen, naturalizing
- Native states
- SC