Taxon: Juglans nigra L.

Common names:

• black walnut   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• noyer noir   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• noyer noir d'Amérique   (Source: Zander ed17 ) – French
  
• schwarze Walnuß   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• Schwarznuß   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – German
  
• nogueira-preta   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Portuguese
  
• nogal americano   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• nogal negro   (Source: Pl Names ) – Spanish
  
• svart valnöt   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Eur Gard F)
  
• Environmental: shade/shelter   (fide AH 519)
  
• Human food: nut   (fide T. S. Elias, Trees N. Amer. 269. 1980)
  
• Gene sources: graft stock relative for English walnut   (for some cultivars fide Dict Gard)
  
• Gene sources: primary genetic relative of black walnut   (fide Genome Map Mol Breed 7:189-198. 2007)
  
• Gene sources: secondary genetic relative of English walnut   (based on natural hybrids with Juglans regia (male parent) fide Mol Breed 24:322, 333. 2009)
  
• Materials: abrasive   (fide GenomeMap MolecBreed 7:193. 2007)
  
• Materials: beads   (fide Bot Beads World; as web document)
  
• Materials: wood   (fide AH 519)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide CRC MedHerbs ed2; Herbs Commerce ed2)
  

More:

View phytochemical or ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

View ethnobotanical data from Moerman's Native American Ethnobotany Database

Distributional range:

• NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
  Eastern Canada: Canada - Ontario [s.]
  Northeastern U.S.A.: United States - Connecticut, Indiana, Massachusetts [w.], Michigan [s.], New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont [w.], West Virginia
  North-Central U.S.A.: United States - Illinois, Iowa, Kansas [e. & c.], Minnesota [s.], Missouri, Nebraska [e.], Oklahoma, South Dakota [e.], Wisconsin
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida [n.w.], Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana [n.], Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia
  South-Central U.S.A.: United States - Texas

• also cultivated

References:

• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• Browne, E. T. & R. Athey. 1992. Vascular plants of Kentucky: an annotated checklist.
• Clewell, A. F. 1985. Guide to the vascular plants of the Florida panhandle.
• Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs.
• Duke, J. A. 1989. Handbook of Nuts. CRC Press.
• Elias, T.S. 1980. The complete trees of North America: a field guide and natural history. 269.
• Encke, F. et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage.
• Erhardt, W. et al. 2002. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 17. Auflage.
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
• Fernald, M. L. 1950. Gray's manual of botany, ed. 8.
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
• Grimshaw, J. M. 2003. Juglans, notes on the temperate species. Int. Dendrol. Soc. Year Book 107–130.
• Hanelt, P., ed. 2001. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6.
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening.
• IPGRI. New World Fruits Database (on-line resource).
• Kartesz, J. T. 1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland.
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
• Little, E. L., Jr. 1978. Important forest trees of the United States.
• Little, E. L., Jr. 1979. Checklist of United States trees, Agric. Handb. 541.
• Manning, W. E. 1957. The genus Juglans in Mexico and Central America. J. Arnold Arbor. 38:121–150.
• Mansfeld, R. 1959. Die Kulturpflanze, Beiheft 2.
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2.
• McGranahan, G. & C. Leslie. 2009. Breeding walnuts (Juglans regia). In: Jain, S. M. & P.M. Priyadarshan, eds., Breeding plantation tree crops: temperate species. 249–273.
• McGregor, R. L. et al. (The Great Plains Flora Association). 1986. Flora of the Great Plains.
• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2.
• Michler, C. H. et al. 2007. Chapter 6. Black Walnut. In: Kole. C., ed., Genome mapping and molecular breeding in plants (7 vols.). 7:189–198.
• Munro, D. B. Canadian poisonous plants information system (on-line resource).
• Ownbey, G. B. & T. Morley. 1991. Vascular plants of Minnesota: a checklist and atlas.
• Pollegioni, P. et al. 2009. Retrospective identification of hybridogenic walnut plants by SSR fingerprinting and parentage anlysis. Molec. Breed. 24:321–335.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Potter, D. et al. 2002. Defining the sources of Paradox: DNA sequence markers for North American walnut (Juglans L.) species and hybrids. Sci. Hort. 94:157–170.
• Radford, A. E. et al. 1964. Manual of the vascular flora of the Carolinas.
• Rehder, A. 1949. Bibliography of cultivated trees and shrubs.
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
• Seymour, F. 1969. The flora of New England.
• Smith, E. B. 1978. An atlas and annotated list of the vascular plants of Arkansas.
• Smith, R. J. Botanical beads of the world (on-line resource).
• Stanford, A. M. et al. 2000. Phylogeny and biogeography of Juglans (Juglandaceae) based on matK and ITS sequence data. Amer. J. Bot. 87:872–882.
• Stone, D. E. et al. 2009. Natural history, distribution, phylogenetic relationships, and conservation of Central American black walnuts (Juglans sect. Rhysocaryon). J. Torrey Bot. Soc. 136:1–25.
• Voss, E. 1972–. Michigan flora.
• Walters, S. M. et al., eds. 1986–. European garden flora.
• Wherry, E. T. et al. 1979. Atlas of the flora of Pennsylvania.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Juglans nigra.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Juglans nigra.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Juglans nigra.

Check other web resources for Juglans nigra L.:

• Flora of North America: Collaborative Floristic Effort of North American Botanists
• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• BONAP: North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program
• New World Fruits Database: Online database from Bioversity International
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ICRA: International Cultivar Registration Authority (on-line resource). for Juglans nigra cultivars
• 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.

Images:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.
• Forestry Images: from www.forestryimages.org
• Fruit: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image

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• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional 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.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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