View source for Carpinus caroliniana subsp. caroliniana

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|accepted_name=Carpinus caroliniana subsp. caroliniana
|accepted_authority=unknown
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|common_names=American hornbeam;blue-beech
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|code=E
|label=Endemic
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|hierarchy=Betulaceae;Betulaceae subfam. Coryloideae;Carpinus;Carpinus caroliniana;Carpinus caroliniana subsp. caroliniana
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Betulaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Betulaceae subfam. Coryloideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Carpinus]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Carpinus caroliniana]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subspecies</small>[[Carpinus caroliniana subsp. caroliniana]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 3
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Trees,</b> to 8 m; trunks short, crooked, shallowly fluted, crowns open, spreading. <b>Bark</b> steel gray or brownish gray, smooth to somewhat roughened. <b>Winter</b> buds containing inflorescences squarish in cross section, 3–4 mm. <b>Leaf</b> blade narrowly ovate to oblong-ovate, 3–8.5(–12) × 3–6 cm, base narrowly rounded to cordate, margins doubly serrate, apex acute or obtuse; surfaces abaxially slightly to moderately pubescent, especially on major veins, without small dark glands. <b>Infructescences</b> 2.5–7 cm; bracts relatively uncrowded, 2–3 × 1.4–2.3 cm, lobes narrow, elongate, apex acute, obtuse, or rounded.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering late spring.
|habitat=Stream banks, flood plains, and moist slopes, frequently in understory
|elevation=0–200 m
|distribution=Ala.;Ark.;Del.;Fla.;Ga.;Ill.;Ky.;La.;Md.;Miss.;Mo.;N.J.;N.C.;Okla.;S.C.;Tenn.;Tex.;Va.
|discussion=<p>Carpinus caroliniana subsp. caroliniana is characteristic of the southern Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico coastal plains and also extends northward in the Mississippi Embayment. It differs from C. caroliniana subsp. virginiana in its smaller, more ovate, more acute-tipped leaves that have finer secondary teeth and lack conspicuous dark glands abaxially.</p>
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name=Carpinus caroliniana subsp. caroliniana
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|authority=unknown
|rank=subspecies
|parent rank=species
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|basionyms=
|family=Betulaceae
|phenology=Flowering late spring.
|habitat=Stream banks, flood plains, and moist slopes, frequently in understory
|elevation=0–200 m
|distribution=Ala.;Ark.;Del.;Fla.;Ga.;Ill.;Ky.;La.;Md.;Miss.;Mo.;N.J.;N.C.;Okla.;S.C.;Tenn.;Tex.;Va.
|reference=None
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|special status=Endemic
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|subfamily=Betulaceae subfam. Coryloideae
|genus=Carpinus
|species=Carpinus caroliniana
|subspecies=Carpinus caroliniana subsp. caroliniana
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