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Carpinus caroliniana



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Carpinus caroliniana
American hornbeam

The 2 1/2 to 5" long leaves are alternate, simple, narrow ovate-oblong and glabrous with the veins seldom branched on the ends. The margins are doubly serrate.

 
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