Summary ⁵

Carya ovalis, the Red Hickory or Sweet Pignut Hickory, is a fairly uncommon but widespread hickory native to eastern North America. It is typically found growing in dry, well drained sandy upland ridges and sloped woodlands from southern Ontario, Canada, and in the United States east to New Hampshire, south to northern Florida west to eastern Texas and north-west to Nebraska. This species was formerly treated as a variety or northern ecotype of the Pignut Hickory...

Taxon biology ⁶

Sweet Pignut Hickory

    Juglandaceae -- Walnut family

    Glendon W. Smalley

    Pignut hickory (Carya glabra) is a common but not abundant  species in the oak-hickory forest association in Eastern United  States. Other common names are pignut, sweet pignut, coast pignut  hickory, smoothbark hickory, swamp hickory, and broom hickory.  The pear-shaped nut ripens in September and October and is an  important part of the diet of many wild animals. The wood is used  for a variety of products, including fuel for home heating.

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More Info

• iNat taxon page
• Biodiversity Heritage Library
• BOLD Systems BIN search
• eFloras.org
• Flora of North America (beta)
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
• Go Botany
• HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants
• IPNI (with links to POWO, WFO, and BHL)
• Maryland Biodiversity Project
• NatureServe Explorer 2.0
• SEINet Symbiota portals
• Tropicos
• USDA PLANTS database
• VASCAN by Canadensys
• World Flora Online

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