Indentification features

• Leaves
  • Alternate, simple, deciduous, assymetrical at base, abruptly pointed
  • Teeth are course toothed and gland tipped (close up of yellow leaf gives hint of glands
  • Note the branching of veins
  • Stalks almost half as long as blades
• Buds
  • Yellow-green in late summer
  • Red in winter
  • Lopsided
• Flowers
  • Creamy yellow on long slender stalks attached to bracts
• Fruit
  • Small, wooly, hard, round, may persist with bract through the winter.

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