General Plant Information (Edit)
Plant Habit: Shrub
Sun Requirements: Full Sun
Full Sun to Partial Shade
Water Preferences: Wet Mesic
Mesic
Soil pH Preferences: Slightly acid (6.1 – 6.5)
Neutral (6.6 – 7.3)
Minimum cold hardiness: Zone 4a -34.4 °C (-30 °F) to -31.7 °C (-25 °F)
Maximum recommended zone: Zone 8b
Plant Height: 3 to 7 feet
Plant Spread: 4 to 7 feet
Leaves: Good fall color
Deciduous
Fruit: Pops open explosively when ripe
Fruiting Time: Late winter or early spring
Flowers: Showy
Fragrant
Flower Color: Orange
Flower Time: Late winter or early spring
Wildlife Attractant: Bees
Resistances: Deer Resistant
Flood Resistant
Drought tolerant
Pollinators: Bees
Various insects
Miscellaneous: Tolerates poor soil
Monoecious

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Common names
  • Ozark Witch Hazel
  • Witch Hazel

Photo Gallery
Location: My garden in St Louis
Date: 2018-01-27
Location: Raulston Arboretum  NC State Univ  Raleigh, NC
Date: 2024-02-13
Location: West Chester, Pennsylvania
Date: 2019-02-04
mature shrub in bloom
Location: My garden in St Louis
Date: 2017-02-05
Location: West Chester, Pennsylvania
Date: 2018-11-08
mature specimen
Location: West Chester, Pennsylvania
Date: 2018-11-08
about half in fall color
Location: West Chester, Pennsylvania
Date: 2015-11-04
near full yellow fall color
Location: West Chester, Pennsylvania
Date: 2011-03-12
the very fragrant flowers
Location: West Chester, Pennsylvania
Date: 2014-06-02
young shrub in landscape
Location: West Chester, Pennsylvania
Date: 2015-10-28
a touch of autumn color coming
Location: West Chester, Pennsylvania
Date: 2015-11-02
mostly autumn yellow color present
Location: West Chester, Pennsylvania
Date: 2015-11-02
autumn foliage
Location: West Chester, Pennsylvania
Date: 2011-03-12
the newly planted specimen in 2011 in bloom
Comments:
  • Posted by ILPARW (southeast Pennsylvania - Zone 6b) on Jan 4, 2018 8:22 PM concerning plant:
    This dwarf cultivar was selected in Europe in 1980, though the species is native to the United States in Missouri, Arkansas, and Oklahoma around the Ozark Region. This shrub gets about 4 to 7 feet high and about as wide. The little orange flowers are wonderfully fragrant. The leaves are smaller and narrower than the mother species. It is sold from a few specialty nurseries, as Broken Arrow Nursery in Hamden, Connecticut, where my biggest customer bought hers in 2011 and I've taken photos of it. The specimen in West Chester, PA in November 2018 is about 5.5 feet high by 8 feet wide, which is a lot larger than what the nursery said it would get.

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