Carya ovalis (Wangenh.) Sarg.

  • Authority

    Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp.

  • Family

    Juglandaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Carya ovalis (Wangenh.) Sarg.

  • Description

    Species Description - Bark light or dark gray, eventually separating into fairly long plates; buds glabrous to pubescent, resinous, usually with some slender, appressed hairs; petioles and rachis soon glabrate; lfls usually 7(5), soon glabrous beneath except for scattered hairs on the larger veins and in the vein-axils; terminal lfl oblanceolate to narrowly obovate; fr subglobose, 2–4.5 cm, the husk 2–5 mm thick, eventually splitting to the base; nut pale, 4-angled above the middle; kernel sweet and edible; 2n=32. Upland woods; Mass. to Wis., s. to Ga., Miss., and Mo. (C. microcarpa; Hicoria borealis) Highly variable, but scarcely separable into significant vars.

  • Common Names

    sweet pignut-hickory, red hickory