Hop Hornbeam

Scientific Name:   Ostrya virginiana


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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