3 Gallon
Exposure: Part sun
Soil: Medium-wet
Mature Height: 25-35 feet
Mature Width: 20-30 feet
Description: Good for screen or hedge, great fall color, sinewy bark, interesting seed structure.
Attracts: Insects and Birds: Miscellaneous insects feed on the foliage, wood, and sap. These species include the caterpillars of Baileya ophthalmica (Eyed Baileya), Agrilus ohioensis and other wood-boring beetles, Lygocoris carpini and other plant bugs, the aphid Macrosiphum carpinicolens, and several leafhoppers. Hornbeam/musclewood is a preferred host of the leafhoppers Eratoneura direpta, Eratoneura triangulata, and Erythridula modica. The nutlets, buds, or catkins are eaten by the Wood Duck, Yellow-Rumped Warbler, and probably other birds. Some birds use Blue Beech occasionally for nesting habitat; the Wood Thrush has been observed to build nests in its branches, while the Black-Capped Chickadee uses small cavities in older trees as locations for their nests.
