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Your search found 15 taxa in the family Juglandaceae, Walnut family, as understood by Weakley's Flora.
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Common Name:
Black Walnut
Weakley's Flora: (11/30/12) Juglans nigra FAMILY: Juglandaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Juglans nigra FAMILY: Juglandaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Juglans nigra 053-01-001 FAMILY: Juglandaceae
Look for it in moist, nutrient-rich forests of floodplains and slopes, calcareous hammocks
Common (uncommon in NC-SC Coastal Plain)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Butternut, White Walnut
Weakley's Flora: (11/30/12) Juglans cinerea FAMILY: Juglandaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Juglans cinerea FAMILY: Juglandaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Juglans cinerea 053-01-002 FAMILY: Juglandaceae
Look for it in moist, nutrient-rich forests
Uncommon
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Nutmeg Hickory
Weakley's Flora: (5/21/15) Carya myristiciformis FAMILY: Juglandaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Carya myristiciformis FAMILY: Juglandaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH (ORTHOGRAPHIC VARIANT) Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Carya myristicaeformis 053-02-001 FAMILY: Juglandaceae
Look for it in non-riverine swamps over calcareous substrates, including calcareous clays and coquina limestone ("marl"), oak flatwoods
Rare
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Pecan
Weakley's Flora: (11/30/12) Carya illinoinensis FAMILY: Juglandaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Carya illinoinensis FAMILY: Juglandaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH (ORTHOGRAPHIC VARIANT) Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Carya illinoensis 053-02-002 FAMILY: Juglandaceae
Look for it in bottomlands. Eastward it is persistent around dwellings and in pecan orchards, escaped to suburban woodlands, rural forest edges and floodplains
Commonly cultivated
Native: south central US
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Common Name:
Bitternut Hickory
Weakley's Flora: (11/30/12) Carya cordiformis FAMILY: Juglandaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Carya cordiformis FAMILY: Juglandaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Carya cordiformis 053-02-003 FAMILY: Juglandaceae
Look for it in forests & woodlands, esp in rich, moist alluvial or slope forests
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Water Hickory, Bitter Pecan
Weakley's Flora: (11/30/12) Carya aquatica FAMILY: Juglandaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Carya aquatica FAMILY: Juglandaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Carya aquatica 053-02-004 FAMILY: Juglandaceae
Look for it in swamp forests, where flooded during the winter months
Common in Coastal Plain (rare elsewhere)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Carolina Shagbark Hickory, Southern Shagbark Hickory, Carolina Hickory
Weakley's Flora: (5/21/15) Carya carolinae-septentrionalis FAMILY: Juglandaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Carya carolinae-septentrionalis FAMILY: Juglandaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Carya carolinae-septentrionalis 053-02-005 FAMILY: Juglandaceae
Look for it in upland flats, esp those weathered from mafic rocks and with shrink-swell soils dominated by montmorillonitic clays, less typically on slopes and bottomlands
Uncommon (an endemic)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Common Shagbark Hickory
Weakley's Flora: (5/21/15) Carya ovata FAMILY: Juglandaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Carya ovata FAMILY: Juglandaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Carya ovata 053-02-006 FAMILY: Juglandaceae
Look for it in rich moist bottomlands, slopes, occasionally on dry upland flats
Uncommon in GA & NC (rare in NC Mtns)
Native to North Carolina & Georgia
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Common Name:
Big Shellbark Hickory, Kingnut Hickory
Weakley's Flora: (11/30/12) Carya laciniosa FAMILY: Juglandaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Carya laciniosa FAMILY: Juglandaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Carya laciniosa 053-02-007 FAMILY: Juglandaceae
Look for it in moist circumneutral, alluvial levee forests along brownwater rivers of the Coastal Plain (NC), streams of the Piedmont (NC) and Mountains (GA)
Rare
Native to North Carolina & Georgia
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Common Name:
Sand Hickory, Pale Hickory
Weakley's Flora: (11/30/12) Carya pallida FAMILY: Juglandaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Carya pallida FAMILY: Juglandaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Carya pallida 053-02-008 FAMILY: Juglandaceae
Look for it in dry sandy or rocky forests & woodlands
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Mockernut Hickory, White Hickory
Weakley's Flora: (5/21/15) Carya tomentosa FAMILY: Juglandaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Carya alba FAMILY: Juglandaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Carya tomentosa 053-02-009 FAMILY: Juglandaceae
Look for it in forests and woodlands
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Pignut Hickory
Weakley's Flora: (10/20/20) Carya glabra FAMILY: Juglandaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Carya glabra FAMILY: Juglandaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Carya glabra 053-02-010 FAMILY: Juglandaceae
Look for it in a wide variety of forests and woodlands
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Red Hickory, Sweet Pignut Hickory
Weakley's Flora: (5/21/15) Carya ovalis FAMILY: Juglandaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Carya ovalis FAMILY: Juglandaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Carya ovalis 053-02-011 FAMILY: Juglandaceae
Look for it in forests and woodlands
Common (rare in GA Piedmont & SC Coastal Plain)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Scrub Hickory
Weakley's Flora: (5/21/15) Carya floridana FAMILY: Juglandaceae
(?) PLANTS National Database: Carya floridana FAMILY: Juglandaceae
Look for it in Florida scrub, sandhills
Native: Florida
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Common Name:
Black Hickory
Weakley's Flora: (5/21/15) Carya texana FAMILY: Juglandaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Carya texana FAMILY: Juglandaceae
Look for it on dry slopes and ridges, esp calcareous
Native: west of the Carolinas & Georgia
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