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The Hoptree (Ptelea trifoliata, Rutaceae) is a deciduous shrub or small tree 6-8 m tall with a broad crown. It is native to North America, from southern Ontario, Canada southeast to Florida, USA, west to southern CaliforniaCalifornia is a state located in the western United States, bordering the Pacific Ocean. The most populous and third largest state in the U. California is both physically and demographically diverse. The state's official nickname is "The Golden State", wh and south to OaxacaMexican states Oaxaca is the name of a city and a state in Mexico. This article is about the state. For the city, see: Oaxaca''. ESTADO DE OAXACA Other Mexican States Capital Oaxaca Other major cities Salina Cruz Area93,952 km² Ranked 5th Population(2000 in southern MexicoThis article is about the country Mexico. For other meanings, see Mexico (disambiguation The United Mexican States or Mexico ( Spanish: Estados Unidos Mexicanos or Mexico regarding the use of the variant spelling Mejico see section The name below) is a co.

Some botanists treat the Hoptree as a group of four or more closely related species:

• Eastern Hoptree Ptelea trifoliata
• Florida Hoptree Ptelea baldwinii (P. trifoliata var. baldwinii)
• Western Hoptree Ptelea crenulata (P. trifoliata var. crenulata)
• Narrowleaf Hoptree Ptelea lutescens (P. angustifolia, P. trifoliata var. angustifolia)

The twigA twig is a small terminal branch section that bears leaves, buds and usually the flowers and fruit of plants. Only dicotyledonous flowering woody plants and most gymnosperms have true twigs; monocotyledons and tree ferns do not. Twigs are critically impos are slender to moderately stout, brown with deep U-shaped leaf scars, and with short, light brown, fuzzy buds. The leavesThis article is about the leaf a plant organ. See Leaf (disambiguation) for other meanings. In botany, a leaf is an above-ground plant organ specialized for photosynthesis. For this purpose, a leaf is typically flat and thin, to expose the chloroplast con are alternate, 5-18 cm long, palmately compound with three (rarely five) leaflets, each leaflet 1-10 cm long, sparsely serrated or entire, shiny dark green above, paler below. The western and southwestern forms have smaller leaves (5-11 cm) than the eastern forms (10-18 cm), an adaptation to the drier climateThe climate is the weather averaged over a long period of time. A descriptive saying is that "climate is what you expect, weather is what you get". The IPCC glossary definition is: : Climate in a narrow sense is usually defined as the “average weather”, os there.

The flowerA flower is the reproductive organ of those plants classified as angiosperms ( flowering plants; Division Magnoliophyta). The function of a flower is to produce seeds through sexual reproduction''. For the higher plants, seeds are the next generation, ands are small, 1-2 cm across, with 4-5 narrow, greenish white petals, produced in terminal, branched clusters in spring, with an unpleasant odor. The fruit is a round wafer-like papery samara, 2-2.5 cm across, light brown, maturing in summer.

The bark is reddish brown to gray brown, short horizontal lenticels, warty corky ridges, becoming slightly scaly, unpleasant odor and bitter taste. It has several Native American uses as a herbal medicine for different ailments.