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Taxon: Carya ovalis (Wangenh.) Sarg.

Genus: Carya section: Carya
Family: Juglandaceae.
Nomen number: 402991
Place of publication: Trees & shrubs 2:207. 1913
Name verified on: 12-Oct-1995 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 18-Oct-1995
No species priority site assigned.
Accessions: 4 in National Plant Germplasm System.


Common names:

  • false shagbark   (Source: Crops US ) – English
  • red hickory   (Source: Trees US ) – English
  • small pignut   (Source: Crops US ) – English
  • rote Hickorynuß   (Source: Zander Ency ) – German
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Economic importance:

  • Environmental: ornamental   (fide Dict Gard; Krussmann)
  • Fuels: charcoal   (for smoking meats fide AH 519, as C. glabra var. odorata)
  • Fuels: fuelwood   (for smoking meats fide AH 519, as C. glabra var. odorata)
  • Gene sources: secondary genetic relative of pecan   (based on its ploidy condition in relation to pecan fide Amer J Bot 56:933. 1969)
  • Materials: wood   (fide AH 519, as C. glabra var. odorata)
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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 - Ontario [s.]
    Northeastern U.S.A.: United States - Connecticut, Indiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire [s.w.], New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, West Virginia
    North-Central U.S.A.: United States - Illinois, Missouri [s.e.], Oklahoma
    Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia

      Cultivated:
  • also cultivated

References:

  • Browne, E. T. & R. Athey. 1992. Vascular plants of Kentucky: an annotated checklist.
  • Deam, C. C. 1940. Flora of Indiana.
  • Duncan, W. H. & J. T. Kartesz. 1981. Vascular flora of Georgia: an annotated checklist.
  • Erhardt, W. et al. 2008. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen.
  • FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America. [= C. glabra (Mill.) Sweet].
  • Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening.
  • Jones, G. N. & G. D. Fuller. 1955. Vascular plants of Illinois.
  • Krüssmann, G. 1984. Manual of cultivated broad-leaved trees and shrubs (English translation of Handbuch der Laubgehölze. 1976).
  • Kurz, H. & R. K. Godfrey. 1962. The trees of northern Florida.
  • 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. [= C. glabra var. odorata (Marshall) Little].
  • Magness, J. R. et al. 1971. Food and feed crops of the United States. IR Bull. 1.
  • 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.
  • Seymour, F. 1969. The flora of New England.
  • Smith, E. B. 1978. An atlas and annotated list of the vascular plants of Arkansas.
  • Steyermark, J. A. 1977. Flora of Missouri.
  • Stone, D. E. et al. 1969. New World Juglandaceae. II. Hickory nut oils, phenetic similarities, and evolutionary implications in the genus Carya. Amer. J. Bot. 56:928–935. [as a tetraploid].
  • Strausbaugh, T. D. & E. L. Core. 1978. Flora of West Virginia, ed. 2.
  • Voss, E. 1972–. Michigan flora. [= C. glabra (Mill.) Sweet].
  • Wherry, E. T. et al. 1979. Atlas of the flora of Pennsylvania.
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Synonyms:


Check other web resources for Carya ovalis (Wangenh.) Sarg.:

  • 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
  • ICRA: International Cultivar Registration Authority (on-line resource). for Carya ovalis 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.

Check other web resources for images:

  • PlantSystematics.org
  • Google 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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Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database].
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
URL: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?402991 (26 May 2013)

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