The common hackberry also has wider leaves that are coarser above than the sugarberry. "Celtis occidentalis", the common hackberry, and "Celtis laevigata", the sugarberry or southern hackberry. It is also known as the nettletree, sugarberry, beaverwood, northern hackberry, and American hackberry. Sugarberry has narrower leaves which are smoother above. Sugarberry mixed with hackberry supplies the lumber known as hackberry. Sugarberry occurs primarily along streams and in moist soils on floodplains. Sugarberry is frequently planted as a shade-tree within its range. Sugarberry is easily confused with common hackberry ("C. occidentalis") where the range overlaps.