Taxon: Carya tomentosa (Lam.) Nutt.

Common names:

• big-bud hickory   (Source: Dict Gard )
  
• mockernut hickory   (Source: Trees US )
  
• white-heart hickory   (Source: Dict Gard )
  

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see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Dict Gard; Hortus 3)
  
• Fuels: charcoal; fuelwood   (for smoking meats fide AH 519)
  
• Materials: wood   (fide AH 519)
  

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View ethnobotanical data from Moerman's Native American Ethnobotany Database

Distributional range:

Native: (links to other web resources are provided for some distributions)

• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Northeastern U.S.A.: United States - Connecticut, Indiana, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, West Virginia
  North-Central U.S.A.: United States - Illinois, Iowa [s.e.], Kansas [e.], Missouri, Oklahoma
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia
  South-Central U.S.A.: United States - Texas

References:

• Boutelje, J. B. 1980. Encyclopedia of world timbers, names and technical literature. (Ency WTimber)
• Browne, E. T. & R. Athey. 1992. Vascular plants of Kentucky: an annotated checklist. (L Kentucky)
• Clark, R. C. 1971. The woody plants of Alabama. Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 58:147.
• Correll, D. S. & M. C. Johnston. 1970. Manual of the vascular plants of Texas. (F Tex)
• Deam, C. C. 1940. Flora of Indiana. (F Indiana)
• Duncan, W. H. & J. T. Kartesz. 1981. Vascular flora of Georgia: an annotated checklist. (L Georgia)
• Elias, T. S. 1972. The genera of Juglandaceae in the southeastern United States. J. Arnold Arbor. 53:26–51.
• 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)
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. (Dict Gard)
• 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) [= C. alba (L.) Nutt. ex Ell.].
• 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. 1973. The northern limits of the distributions of hickories in New England. Rhodora 75:34–51.
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2. (Food Feed Crops US)
• McGregor, R. L. et al. (The Great Plains Flora Association). 1986. Flora of the Great Plains. (F GPlains)
• Meyer, F. G. et al. 1994. A catalog of cultivated woody plants of the southeastern United States. (L CultWPl SE US)
• Mitchell, R. S., ed. 1986. A checklist of New York state plants. New York State Mus. Bull. 458. (L New York)
• 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)
• 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)
• Strausbaugh, T. D. & E. L. Core. 1978. Flora of West Virginia, ed. 2. (F WVa)
• Voss, E. 1972–. Michigan flora. (F Mich) [mentions].
• Wherry, E. T. et al. 1979. Atlas of the flora of Pennsylvania. (Atlas Penn)

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Carya tomentosa.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Carya tomentosa. Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Synonyms:

• (=) Carya alba (L.) Nutt.
  
• (=) Juglans tomentosa Michx.
  

Check other databases for Carya tomentosa (Lam.) Nutt.:

• 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
• ICRA: International Cultivar Registration Authority for Carya tomentosa 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.
  Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Check other databases for images:

• PlantSystematics.org
• 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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