Size: tree, 20-30' average height and spread at maturity
Buds: naked, superposed, 2-ranked, .25"
Leaves: deciduous, alternate, 1-3.5" long, .5-1.5" wide, simple, broad elliptic to elliptic oblong, tips acute to acuminate, denticulate toward tip or nearly entire, medium to dark green in summer, yellowish to reddish in fall
Twigs: leaf scars somewhat raised, bark mostly firm
Flowers: monoecious, white flowers with yellow stamens, bell-shaped, bloom in early summer
Fruit: dry ovoid grayish .5" drupe
Bark: gray-brown, smooth, irregular orange-brown fissures, bark of 2+ year-old trees exfoliates in thin papery shreds
