
Nearly indestructible except for one thing: Morton rates it as not tolerant of salt, so anything within splash range of a salted road, drive, or cul-de-sac turnaround browns and thins while an identical tree 40 ft away looks perfect. It is also the most misidentified tree on any quote, because "ironwood" gets applied to both this and American hornbeam and the two routinely get billed as each other.
Medium tree · $250–$1,400 typical
Also searched as ironwood, American hophornbeam, hop hornbeam, leverwood (slug corrected from "ironwood-hophornbeam" — Ostrya virginiana).