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Photographer: Kitty Kohout
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Family Ulmaceae
Celtis occidentalis L.
northern hackberry
Celtis: Greek name for some other tree
occidentalis: Latin for "western"
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| Status: | Native |
| Plant: | perennial tree with a rounded crown; gray, deeply furrow bark becoming warty with age; no thorns, wood light yellow |
| Flower: | inflorescence of hanging, dense clusters; blooms March-May |
| Fruit: | dark orange berry turning dark purple to black when ripe, pit cream colored |
| Leaf: | lance-like oval to widely oval or triangular, leathery, base widely pointed, edges with 10-40 teeth occurring well past the middle, surface rough |
| Habitat: | moist; streambanks, floodplains, woodlands, in rich soil |
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