General Plant Information (Edit)
Plant Habit: Shrub
Sun Requirements: Full Sun to Partial Shade
Water Preferences: Mesic
Soil pH Preferences: Moderately acid (5.6 – 6.0)
Plant Height: 12 feet
Plant Spread: 12 feet
Leaves: Good fall color
Deciduous
Fruit: Pops open explosively when ripe
Flowers: Showy
Fragrant
Flower Color: Red
Bloom Size: Under 1"
1"-2"
Flower Time: Late winter or early spring
Winter
Uses: Windbreak or Hedge
Provides winter interest
Erosion control
Resistances: Deer Resistant

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Common names
  • Witch Hazel

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Date: 2019-02-27
Location: Missouri Botanical Garden in St Louis
Location: West Jordan, Utah, United States
Date: 2019-03-09
Location: My garden in St Louis
Date: 2013-02-17
Location: Western Washington
Location: Nationale Plantentuin Meise (Botanical Garden near Brussels)
Date: 2023-01-17
Location: Nationale Plantentuin Meise (Botanical Garden near Brussels)
Location: Botanischer Garten München-Nymphenburg
Date: 2018-03-11
Location: RHS Harlow Carr, Yorkshire, UK
Date: 2019-02-14
Location: Twisp
Location: Nationale Plantentuin Meise (Botanical Garden near Brussels)
Date: 2023-01-17
Location: Twisp
Location: My garden in N E Pa. 
Date: 2015-02-15
Uploaded by LorettaNJ
Location: portland oregon
Date: 2020-01-25
Best seen close up
Location: Photo taken in my garden after a snow.
Date: 2010-02-24
Location: Botanical Garden Meise
Date: 2016-03-06
Location: Nationale Plantentuin Meise (Botanical Garden near Brussels)
Uploaded by snarfie
Uploaded by snarfie
Location: Nationale Plantentuin (Meise - Brussel - Belgium)
Location: Nationale Plantentuin (Meise - Brussel - Belgium)
Location: Nationale Plantentuin Meise (Meise Botanical Garden)
Location: Nationale Plantentuin Meise (Meise Botanical Garden)
Location: Twisp
Date: May

Date: 2017-03-07
Just before planting but easy to see the bloom
Uploaded by snarfie
Location: Western Washington
Date: 2014-12-28
Location: Nationale Plantentuin Meise (Meise Botanical Garden)
Date: 2024-01-24
Location: Dawes Arboretum, Newark Ohio, USA
Date: 2012-02-03 
closeup of leaf buds
Location: Dawes Arboretum, Newark Ohio, USA
Date: 2012-02-03 
closeup of bloom
Location: Dawes Arboretum, Newark Ohio, USA
Date: 2012-02-03 
placement of blooms on branches
Location: Dawes Arboretum, Newark Ohio, USA
Date: 2012-02-03
Uploaded by snarfie
Location: Dawes Arboretum, Newark Ohio, USA
Date: 2012-02-03 
Last year's seed pods

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