Slow-growing, deciduous, small to medium-sized understory tree with persistent hop-like fruits. Rough grayish-brown bark appears slightly shaggy. Marcescent leaves (retention of dead leaves beyond autumn).
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Hop Hornbeam
Genus species:
Ostrya virginiana
Common Name:
Hop Hornbeam
Family Name:
Betulaceae
Deciduous trees and shrubs; leaves alternate, simple, stipulate; plants monoecious, with flowers bracteate in catkins, the staminate catkin pendulous and pistillate catkin spikelike or conelike; fruit a nut, nutlet, or tiny samara.
Seed Type
Angiosperm
Origin:
Native: native to North America. Non-native: not native to North America. Introduced Native: native to North America, but not Rowe Woods.
* Definitions based on the USDA terminology
Native
Category:
Tree
Identified by:
A. Swanson
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