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Photographer: Kenneth J. Sytsma
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Family Betulaceae
Carpinus caroliniana Walter subsp. virginiana (Marshall) Furlow
American hornbeam, blue-beech, hornbeam, ironwood
Carpinus: Latin possibly from carpentum, a horse-drawn Roman vehicle with wheels made from this wood
caroliniana: from Carolinas
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| Status: | Native |
| Plant: | perennial tree to 40' tall with short, crooked, fluted trunks; crown broadly spreading; bark bluish gray, smooth to sometimes roughened |
| Flower: | male catkin 3/4"-2 1/3" long; blooms late spring |
| Fruit: | fruit clusters 1 1/2"-4 1/2" long, lobes triangular with a sharp tip |
| Leaf: | oval to elliptic to narrowly elliptic; edges coarsely and irregularly doubly toothed; teeth sharp and narrow |
| Habitat: | moist; rich, deciduous woods; streambanks, floodplains, hillsides |
| (Glossary) |
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