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 of ...

My neighbor has a beautiful hop hornbeam tree growing next to his driveway. Up until a couple years ago, I had never heard of this tree and spent some time trying to convince him it was an immature ...

Years ago while working as a state park naturalist on the St. Croix I saw a tree species that was new to me. In mid-summer the unusual seed pod popped from the sea of green leaves of the heavily ...

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 are ...

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.

Three cheers for anyone trying to better themselves at the gym or the smoothie bar this January, but as for me and my house, we’ll have a heaping helping of native plant knowledge from the listserv at ...

My neighbor has a beautiful hop hornbeam tree growing next to his driveway. Up until a couple years ago, I had never heard of this tree and spent some time trying to convince him it was an immature ...

Growth habit: An upright to pyramidal tree when young, gradually taking a rounded shape with age and growing to 25 feet tall and wide. The leaves are deciduous and oblong, growing to 4 inches long ...

How many of you have ever heard of a hop hornbeam? Uh-huh. OK. How many of you know what it is? Does it help if I tell you that it’s a tree? And that it grows in the upland woods in many places right ...