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Ozark Witch Hazel

Close-up of orange flowers with delicate, stringy petals, on a slim branch with a soft focus background that includes more of the same flowers.

Hamamelis vernalis

Season(s): Winter

Garden:
Blomquist Garden of Native Plants

Type of Plant: Fragrant, Native, Tree/Shrub

Ozark witch hazel (Hamamelis vernalis) in the Blomquist Garden of Native Plants. Photo by Jessica Voss.

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Close-up of orange flowers with delicate, stringy petals, on a slim branch with a soft focus background that includes more of the same flowers.
Ozark Witch Hazel

Unlike the more common American witch hazel (H. virginiana), which blooms in the fall and is found across eastern North America, Ozark witch hazel blooms in the spring (vernalis” is Latin for “spring”), and wild populations are limited solely to the Ozark plateau in Missouri, Arkansas and Oklahoma.

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