The creek aspirin tree. Narrow leaves, brittle twigs, catkins in spring.

A fast, often leaning tree of wet ground. Leaves are narrowly lance-shaped with a fine saw edge, shiny green above. Twigs snap easily. Bark on old trunks is dark and deeply ridged.

Habitat

Laughery banks, ditches, wet fence corners.

Season

Catkins April; leaf through October.

Size

30–60 ft

Field marks

Wet feet; narrow finely-toothed leaves; brittle twigs