When I looked it up. Google said Hackberry, but I have never heard of them in our area. Middle Ohio.
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Don’t want to be definitive without better photos, but hackberry is very very likely.
Hackberry is definitely found in middle Ohio, the bark looks right for Hackberry from what I can tell (better pictures will get you a more definitive ID), and the leaf that you have is thankfully pretty distinctive-ish. See how the two lobes near where the stem attaches are slightly asymmetrical, where one part is kind of dipping below the other? It’s sometimes more distinctive on some leaves than others on the same tree, so if you don’t see it on that leaf look at some others.
That slight leaf asymmetry near the stem is a very common trait for trees in the elm family (Ulmaceae). Looking it up, it seems Hackberry isn’t *technically* classified in the elm family anymore (was recently changed), but the family Hackberry belongs to now is still considered to be very closely related to elms, and thus some of the plants there still share that very elm-ish leaf shape.
If it *isn’t* hackberry, I feel very confident it is almost certainly some sort of elm, but beyond that I don’t know enough about tree ID to tell.
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River Birch?
Could be Northern Hackberry…
r/whatisthisplant
When I looked it up. Google said Hackberry, but I have never heard of them in our area. Middle Ohio.
Don’t want to be definitive without better photos, but hackberry is very very likely.
Hackberry is definitely found in middle Ohio, the bark looks right for Hackberry from what I can tell (better pictures will get you a more definitive ID), and the leaf that you have is thankfully pretty distinctive-ish. See how the two lobes near where the stem attaches are slightly asymmetrical, where one part is kind of dipping below the other? It’s sometimes more distinctive on some leaves than others on the same tree, so if you don’t see it on that leaf look at some others.
That slight leaf asymmetry near the stem is a very common trait for trees in the elm family (Ulmaceae). Looking it up, it seems Hackberry isn’t *technically* classified in the elm family anymore (was recently changed), but the family Hackberry belongs to now is still considered to be very closely related to elms, and thus some of the plants there still share that very elm-ish leaf shape.
If it *isn’t* hackberry, I feel very confident it is almost certainly some sort of elm, but beyond that I don’t know enough about tree ID to tell.