Flowers:
Yellow (Dioecious; hairy catkins (0.75-1.5") develop before the leaves emerge in the spring)
Foliage:
Green (Grayish-green summer foliage; no appreciable fall color)
Fruit:
Brown (Dehiscent seed capsule, on females only)
Soil:
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.
