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Taxon: Juglans cinerea L.

Genus: Juglans section: Trachycaryon
Family: Juglandaceae.
Nomen number: 20732
Place of publication: Syst. nat. ed. 10, 2:1273. 1759
Typification: View record from Linnaean Plant Name Typification Project of the Natural History Museum of London.
Name verified on: 13-Oct-1995 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 09-Dec-2005
Species priority site is: Natl. Germplasm Repository - Corvallis (COR).
Accessions: 71 in National Plant Germplasm System.
  • all available ) NPGS accessions ) or .
  • all available ) NPGS accessions by country.
  • only available ) NPGS core subset accessions for the crop ‘WALNUT’ ) or .


Common names:

  • butternut   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  • white walnut   (Source: Hortus 3 ) – English
  • noyer cendré   (Source: Zander ed17 ) – French
  • Butternußbaum   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  • nogal ceniciento   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
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Economic importance:

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Distributional range:

      Native: (links to other web resources are provided for some distributions)
  • NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
    Eastern Canada: Canada - New Brunswick [s.w.], Ontario [s.], Quebec [s.]
    Northeastern U.S.A.: United States - Connecticut, Indiana, Maine [s.w.], Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, West Virginia
    North-Central U.S.A.: United States - Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota [e.], Missouri, Wisconsin
    Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Alabama [n.], Arkansas, Delaware, Georgia [n.], Kentucky, Maryland, Mississippi [n.], North Carolina [w.], South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia

References:

  • Browne, E. T. & R. Athey. 1992. Vascular plants of Kentucky: an annotated checklist. (L Kentucky)
  • Deam, C. C. 1940. Flora of Indiana. (F Indiana)
  • Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs. (CRC MedHerbs ed2)
  • Duncan, W. H. & J. T. Kartesz. 1981. Vascular flora of Georgia: an annotated checklist. (L Georgia)
  • Encke, F. et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage. (Zander ed13)
  • Erhardt, W. et al. 2002. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 17. Auflage. (Zander ed17)
  • FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America. (F NAmer)
  • Fernald, M. L. 1950. Gray's manual of botany, ed. 8. (Grays Man)
  • Gleason, H. A. & A. Cronquist. 1963. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. (Glea Cron)
  • IPGRI. New World Fruits Database - on-line resource. (New World Fruits)
  • Jones, G. N. & G. D. Fuller. 1955. Vascular plants of Illinois. (F IllJones)
  • Kartesz, J. T. 1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland. (L US Can ed2)
  • Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. (Hortus 3)
  • Little, E. L., Jr. 1979. Checklist of United States trees, Agric. Handb. 541. (Trees US)
  • Magness, J. R. et al. 1971. Food and feed crops of the United States. IR Bull. 1. (Crops US)
  • Manning, W. E. 1957. The genus Juglans in Mexico and Central America. J. Arnold Arbor. 38:121–150.
  • Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2. (Food Feed Crops US)
  • McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2. (Herbs Commerce ed2)
  • Mitchell, R. S., ed. 1986. A checklist of New York state plants. New York State Mus. Bull. 458. (L New York)
  • Ownbey, G. B. & T. Morley. 1991. Vascular plants of Minnesota: a checklist and atlas. (L Minn)
  • Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)
  • Radford, A. E. et al. 1964. Manual of the vascular flora of the Carolinas. (F Carolin)
  • Rehder, A. 1949. Bibliography of cultivated trees and shrubs. (Rehder)
  • Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. (Dict Rehm)
  • Rosengarten, F. 1984. The book of edible nuts. (Edible Nuts)
  • Smith, E. B. 1978. An atlas and annotated list of the vascular plants of Arkansas. (L Arkansas)
  • Steyermark, J. A. 1977. Flora of Missouri. (F Missouri)
  • Voss, E. 1972–. Michigan flora. (F Mich)
  • Wherry, E. T. et al. 1979. Atlas of the flora of Pennsylvania. (Atlas Penn)
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Check other databases for Juglans cinerea L.:

  • Flora of North America: Collaborative Floristic Effort of North American Botanists
  • New World Fruits Database: Online database from Bioversity International
  • PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
  • TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
  • Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
  • ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
  • AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
  • Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.
    Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Images:

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  • Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
  • Google Images Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

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URL: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?20732 (09 February 2010)

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