Habitat: drainage basins, mature floodplains, wooded slopes or high rocky limestone bluffs bordering streams, windbreaks
Wildlife value: This tree makes a perfect addition near your butterfly garden, as it is a host plant for the larvae of several butterflies. Wild turkey, ring-necked pheasant, quail, grouse, lesser prairie chicken, cedar waxwing, robins, and other bird species consume common hackberry fruit, which persist throughout the winter. Small mammals also consume the fruit. Deer will browse
common hackberry leaves in the absence of preferred browse species. It also provides cover and nesting for birds. Cover is also provided for game birds, rabbits, and deer by the young stands.
Notes: drought tolerant; tolerates occasional flooding and drought; saplings can sprout in deep shade, common on limestone soils; unique warty bark. Common hackberry is included in windbreak plantings to control wind erosion. Additionally, its deep root system makes common hackberry useful for preventing soil erosion on disturbed sites
Earth Sangha Inventory
Founded in 1997, the Earth Sangha is a nonprofit public charity based in the Washington, DC, region. The Wild Plant Nursery is the most comprehensive source of local-ecotype, native plants in the Washington DC region, and the region’s only facility dedicated exclusively to this type of propagation. “Local-ecotype” plants are propagated from local, wild, naturally-occurring populations and are well-adapted to local conditions and for wildlife species that depend on the local forms, such as pollinators. Inventory is updated on a weekly basis so number may not be accurate.
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