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Lowland Hackberry

The Celtis Laevigata is commonly known as Hackberry, Lowland Hackberry, Palo Blanco, Southern Hackberry, Sugar Hackberry, Sugarberry, as well as Texas Sugarberry

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Growing Regions

Sugarberry is native to the southeastern part of the United States, ranging south from southeastern Virginia to southern Florida; west to central Texas and including northeastern Mexico; north to western Oklahoma and southern Kansas; and east to Missouri, extreme southern Illinois, and Indiana. It occurs locally in Maryland [5,17,36].

     

General Information

The accepted scientific name for sugarberry is Celtis laevigata L. [17,59]. Recognized varieties are as follows [59]: C. l. var. texana (Scheele) Sarg. - Texas sugar hackberry C. l. var. brachyphylla Sarg. - Uvalde sugar hackberry C. l. var. anomala Sarg. - scrub sugar hackberry C. l. var. brevipes Sarg.) - Arizona sugar hackberry

In many areas, sugarberry occurs as scattered individuals.  After
disturbances, a seral sugarberry-American elm (Ulmus americana)-green
ash (Fraxinus pennsylvanica) forest cover type may develop, with
sugarberry as a codominant.  This type intermixes with sweetgum
(Liquidambar styraciflua)-willow oak (Quercus phellos) types, which
contain essentially the same species in different densities.  The
sugarberry-American elm-green ash type occurs most often on the central
coastal plain of the Gulf of Mexico, heavily concentrated on the
Mississippi alluvial plain, and along major river basins [21,36].

Publications in which sugarberry is listed as a dominant or codominant
include:

Woody vegetation of an old-growth creekbottom forest in north-central
  Texas. [41]
Quadrat study of a bottomland forest in St. Martin Parish, Louisiana. [50]
Woody species composition of the upper San Antonio River gallery
  forest. [6]
Productivity and composition of a baldcypress-water tupelo site and a
  bottomland hardwood site in a Louisiana swamp. [10]
Vegetative analysis of the floodplain of the Trinity River, Texas. [42]
Plant communities of the Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge, Texas. [62]
The distribution of woody species in the Guadalupe River floodplain
  forest in the Edwards Plateau of Texas. [20]

Much of the information presented here is attributed to:
Sullivan, Janet. 1993. Celtis laevigata. In: Fire Effects Information System, [Online]. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Fire Sciences Laboratory (Producer). Available at USDA Forest Service.

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