Carpinus caroliniana


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Noun1.Carpinus caroliniana - tree or large shrub with grey bark and blue-green leaves that turn red-orange in autumnCarpinus caroliniana - tree or large shrub with grey bark and blue-green leaves that turn red-orange in autumn
American hornbeam
Carpinus, genus Carpinus - mostly deciduous monoecious trees or shrubs: hornbeams; sometimes placed in subfamily Carpinaceae
hornbeam - any of several trees or shrubs of the genus Carpinus
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These include sugar maple (Acer saccharum), silver maple (Acer saccharinum), red oak (Quercus rubra), black oak (Quercus velutina), swamp white oak (Quercus bicolor), white oak (Quercus Alba), American hornbeam (Carpinus caroliniana), American sycamore (Platanus occidentalis), bald-cypress (Taxodium distichum), Eastern redbud (Cercis canadensis) and Eastern redceder (Juniperus virginiana).
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The dominant ranopy-level species among all sites were Liquidambarstyraciflua (10 sites, mean [IV.sub.300] 53.7 [+ or -] 7.7), Liriodendron tulipifera (10 sites, mean [IV.sub.300]: 37.10 [+ or -] 6.4), Carpinus caroliniana (9 sites, mean [IV.sub.300]: 50.8 [+ or -] 11.7), Acer rubrurn (9 sites, mean [IV.sub.300]: 17.4 [+ or -] 3.9), and Quercus nigra (7 sites, mean [IV.sub.300]: 40.9 [+ or -] 18.1).
Floristic composition of Alabama piedmont floodplains across a gradient of stream channel incision
Carpinus caroliniana is also known as Ironwood or Musclewood due to its sinewy appearance.
Seeing trees: Robert Llewellyn
(Hamamelidaceae), y un frasco de vidrio con agua para sostener ramas frescas de Carpinus caroliniana Walter (Betulaceae), Quercus xalapensis Humboldt & Bonpland (Fagaceae) y L.
Observaciones sobre la reproduccion y el ciclo vital de Plusiotis costata Blanchard, 1851 (Coleoptera: Melolonthidae: Rutelinae)
Mena-Portales, 13/06/95, CB413-1; hojas de Carpinus caroliniana, col.
Adiciones al conocimiento de la diversidad de los hongos anamorfos del bosque mesofilo de montana del estado de Veracruz III
Dominant vegetative overstory is comprised of water oak (Quercus nigra), willow oak (Quercus phellos), overcup oak (Quercus lyrata), pecan and hickory (Carya sp.), cedar elm (Ulmus crassifolia), water elm (Planera aquatica), ash (Fraxinus sp.), American hornbeam (Carpinus caroliniana), and black willow (Salix nigra).
The effects of all-terrain vehicle use on the herpetofauna of an east Texas floodplain
Other woods claim the name beech, including blue or water beech, but these trees, also known as American hornbeam, are from the species Carpinus caroliniana. Water beech is also one of many names for sycamores, from the species Platanus occidentalis.
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ambigua 0.06 0.06 0.06 0.18 Tilia americana 0.07 0.09 0.11 0.27 Ulmus americana 0.04 0.03 0.07 0.14 Shrubs Acer saccharum 0.24 0.17 0.41 Asimina triloba 0.06 0.02 0.08 Carpinus caroliniana 0.06 0.08 0.14 Fagus grandifolia 0.09 0.12 0.21 Frangula alnus 0.03 0.06 0.09 Fraxinus pensylvanica var.
Plant communities of highland heights community park, Cuyahoga County, Ohio (1)
including Liriodendron tulipifera, Carpinus caroliniana, Fagus
A review of the temperate broad-leaved evergreen forest zone of Southeastern North America: floristic affinities and arborescent vegetation types
American Hornbeam (Carpinus caroliniana) - Sometimes called bluebeech or ironwood, American hornbeam has very smooth bark with raised, muscle-like ridges.
Eastern deciduous trees: deciduous (di-sij'oo-es) adj. -- shedding or losing foliage at the end of the growing season

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