Index / Search / Carpinus caroliniana ssp. caroliniana

§1 Plant

Carpinus caroliniana Walter ssp. caroliniana

vernacular American hornbeam — subspecies · Betulaceae


USDA
CACAC2
GBIF
7069133
Rank
subspecies
American hornbeam (Carpinus caroliniana ssp. caroliniana)
Platephotograph · ThePrairiePreacherCC BY-NC source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

Growth habit
Shrub, Tree
Duration
Perennial
Group
Dicot
Family
Betulaceae Gray
Genus
Carpinus
§2a

Native status, by region

  • L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b

County-level range

· 236 counties across 10 states/territories
Legend Native · 236 Introduced · 0 Both · 0 Hover a county for detail.

§3Cultivation

No cultivation specs.

USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.


§4Counties, by state

Recorded in 236 counties across 10 states/territories.

Alabama view state ↗ 13 N
Arkansas view state ↗ 1 N
Delaware view state ↗ 1 N
Florida view state ↗ 38 N
Georgia view state ↗ 7 N
Illinois view state ↗ 1 N
Indiana view state ↗ 5 N
Kentucky view state ↗ 76 N
Louisiana view state ↗ 48 N
Mississippi view state ↗ 46 N

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.

plants.usda.gov/CACAC2 ↗

GBIF Backbone

Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.

gbif.org/species/7069133 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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