A tree with bark with very thick ║ vertical ribs, looks covered with warts or puffy paint. Much of year, has a dark-purple 🍒︎ cherry-like fruit, pea-shaped, sweet as dates.
Also called common hackberry, northern hackberry, beaverwood, nettletree and sugarberry.
Part of
hackberry / nettle genus Celtis
in
family Cannabaceae
in
🍎︎ apple / 🍇︎ berry / buckthorn / elm / hemp / 🌹︎ rose order Rosales.
Native to the Great Plains, Midwest and eastern 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 Canada and USA.
🗺 Map by county (🇺🇸 USA-48),
🗺 map (North America, Central America), 
🗺 today + with climate change (eastern 🇺🇸 USA).
Uses by native peoples
(Ethnobotany database)
Celtis hosts caterpillars of 48 species
of butterflies and moths, in some areas.
Planting info (SW Michigan).