monticola, the mountain silverbell, is a species of flowering plant in the small family Styracaceae.

This large deciduous shrub was originally included in H. carolina, but was identified first as a subspecies by Rehder in 1914 and then as a species by Sargent in 1921.

It is known to grow 34 meters tall in the Great Smoky Mountains.

Another important difference is that monticola has significantly larger flowers than either H. carolina or H.

[3] The silverbell tree grows mostly in the southern Appalachian Mountains and into southern Alabama and Georgia, with small outlying populations up to and barely north of the Ohio River, and along the Oklahoma-Arkansas border.