Native Plants
Digital Herbaria
Celtis tenuifolia
Celtis tenuifolia Nutt.
Dwarf Hackberry, Small Hackberry, Small Sugar Hackberry, Georgia Hackberry, Upland Hackberry
Ulmaceae (Elm Family)
USDA Symbol: CETEUSDA Native Status: L48 (N), CAN (N)
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Specimen & Label Data
Celtis laevigata var. smallii
Sugar Hackberry
Ulmaceae
Location: Limestone hill, 50 m S of S Oakwell Farms Pky & 120 m E of Harry Wurzbach Drive--Oakwell Farms, San Antonio.Latitude: 0.000000
Habitat: Caliche slope; full sun; among Quercus, Ulmus & Diospyros.
Description: Spreading crown of 7 m tree. Branches gray/corky, glabrous. Leaves petiolate (6+ mm), opposite, elliptic-lanceolate, acute to acuminate at apex, rounded at oblique base, to 2.5 x 5 cm; pale gray-green both surfaces; lower w/coarse pubescence mostly on veins. Fruit a globose drupe, 4+ mm dia, w/single stone, on 6 mm peduncle.
County: Bexar
Collector: Harry Cliffe
Collection Date: Mar 27, 1994
Specimen number: 558
Herbarium Owner: NPSOT
Herbarium ID: 0842
Accession Date: Jul 26, 1994
Accession Number: 63
Annotations: MXFXB (In fruit). [=C. tenuifolia]