Taxon: Carya aquatica (F. Michx.) Elliott

Common names:

• bitter pecan   (Source: F NAmer ) – English
  
• water hickory   (Source: Trees US ) – English
  
• Bitter-Pekan   (Source: Zander Ency ) – German
  
• Wasser-Hickorynuß   (Source: Zander Ency ) – German
  

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see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Fuels: charcoal   (fide AH 519)
  
• Fuels: fuelwood   (fide AH 519)
  
• Gene sources: graft stock relative for pecan   (fide Acta Hort 622:561. 2003)
  
• Gene sources: primary genetic relative of pecan   (based on fertile hybrids with Carya illinoinensis fide Brittonia17:99. 1964)
  
• Materials: wood   (fide AH 519)
  

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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)
  North-Central U.S.A.: United States - Illinois [s.], Missouri [s.e.], Oklahoma
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky [s.w.], Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina [e.], South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia [s.e.]
  South-Central U.S.A.: United States - Texas

References:

• Browne, E. T. & R. Athey. 1992. Vascular plants of Kentucky: an annotated checklist. [lists as C. aquatica (F. Michx.) Nutt.].
• Clewell, A. F. 1985. Guide to the vascular plants of the Florida panhandle. [lists as C. aquatica (F. Michx.) Nutt.].
• Correll, D. S. & M. C. Johnston. 1970. Manual of the vascular plants of Texas. [lists as C. aquatica (F. Michx.) Nutt.].
• Deam, C. C. 1940. Flora of Indiana. [mentions].
• Erhardt, W. et al. 2008. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen.
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America. [lists as C. aquatica (F. Michx.) Nutt.].
• Fowells, H. A. 1965. Silvics of forest trees of the United States.
• Godfrey, R. K. & J. W. Wooten. 1979–1981. Aquatic and wetland plants of southeastern United States, 2 vol. [lists as C. aquatica (F. Michx.) Nutt.].
• Grauke, L. J. & T. E. Thompson. 2003. Rootstock development in temperate nut crops. Acta Hort. 622:553–566.
• Jones, G. N. & G. D. Fuller. 1955. Vascular plants of Illinois. [lists as C. aquatica (F. Michx.) Nutt.].
• 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.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Radford, A. E. et al. 1964. Manual of the vascular flora of the Carolinas. [lists as C. aquatica (F. Michx.) Nutt.].
• Smith, E. B. 1978. An atlas and annotated list of the vascular plants of Arkansas. [lists as C. aquatica (F. Michx.) Nutt.].
• Steyermark, J. A. 1977. Flora of Missouri. [lists as C. aquatica (F. Michx.) Nutt.].
• Stone, D. E. et al. 1964. Morphological and chemical evidence of the hybrid nature of bitter pecan, Carya × lecontei. Brittonia 17:97–106.
• Wunderlin, R. P. 1982. Guide to the vascular plants of central Florida. [lists as C. aquatica (F. Michx.) Nutt.].

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Carya aquatica.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Carya aquatica.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Carya aquatica.

Synonyms:

• (≡) Juglans aquatica F. Michx. (basionym)
  

Check other web resources for Carya aquatica (F. Michx.) Elliott:

• 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
• 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.

Images:

• 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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