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Scientific name: Anthophyta: Dicotyledonae: Hamamelidales: Hamamelidaceae: Hamamelis virginiana
Common Name: Common Witch-hazel

Country: USA
State/District: WV
County: Tucker
Date (D-M-Y): 9 - 2001

Photographer: E. M. Barrows

Identifier: E. M. Barrows
Collector: not applicable
 Location: Monongahela National Forest

Keywords: A FEFT FEtr Monongahela National Forest West Virginia yellow flowers
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Common Witch-hazel unlike other native trees flowers primarily in late summer and autumn.   Its spidery yellow flowers are fragrant.   In open mountainous areas of West Virginia, Common Witch-hazel trees may form groups of weather stunted trees called "orchards."   Wind and wind-blown ice crystals from the west gives these trees characteristic shapes.

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