Hop hornbeam isn’t the only name this tree goes by - you might know it as ironwood, leverwood, or just hornbeam (this is where common names can be tricky - another woodland shrub, Carpinus ...

Hop hornbeam isn’t the only name this tree goes by - you might know it as ironwood, leverwood, or just hornbeam (this is where common names can be tricky – another woodland shrub, Carpinus ...

Back at the nature center I gleaned through field guides and discovered the tree's identity: hop hornbeam. I'd never heard of it, though I was vaguely familiar with ironwood, its other name.

Hop hornbeam isn’t the only name this tree goes by - you might know it as ironwood, leverwood, or just hornbeam (this is where common names can be tricky – another woodland shrub, Carpinus ...

Ostrya virginiana, also known as eastern hop hornbeam, is a small, slow growing, understory tree, native to the eastern half of the United States. It grows 20 to 40 feet tall and 15 to 30 feet wide.

There are two members of the birch family that often go unnoticed in the understory of our forests: the Eastern hop hornbeam (Ostrya virginiana) and American hornbeam (Carpinus caroliniana.) Both ...

The word “hornbeam”, originating from the European Hornbeam (Carpinus betulus), relates to hardness of its wood (may be polished to a shine like horn) and the Old English word for tree (beam ...

The ironwood that I'm talking about also goes by the names hop hornbeam and leverwood. There's an entirely different tree in our woods that goes by the name ironwood.

Although some consider hophornbeam a “weed tree,” the species plays a valuable ecological role. Understory plants, including hophornbeam, create vertical diversity in a forest. Multiple layers of ...

For your next tree planting project, think about using some of our less common native trees such as hophornbeam. By using more varieties of trees, you can make an important contribution to the ...

While eastern hophornbeam is not large enough for the commercial lumber industry, it is still used locally, and makes an attractive landscape tree. The bark and inner wood of eastern hophornbeam was ...