Pignut Hickory
Scientific Name:Carya glabra
Common Name Synonyms:Sweet Pignut Hickory


NOTES: Leaves compound, 5 leaflets (occasionally 7). Slender twigs dark purple to light green. Scaly, deeply furrowed, non-peeling, gray bark, darker than Bitternut Hickory. Nuts similar to Bitternut Hickory but larger with smooth, un-ridged shells. Grows on broad upland ridges.

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Pignut Hickory
Genus species: Carya glabra
Common Names: Pignut Hickory
Sweet Pignut Hickory
Family Name: Juglandaceae  
Deciduous trees, often resinous and aromatic; leaves alternate, odd-pinnately compound; flowers unisexual (plants monoecious), bracteate, the male in catkins, the female solitary or in spikes; fruit a drupelike nut, enclosed in an involucre.
Seed Type: Angiosperm
Origin:  
Native: native to North America.
Non-native: not native to North America.
Introduced Native: native to North
America, but not Rowe Woods.
* Definitions based on the USDA
terminology
Native
Category:Tree
Identified by:J.D. Mancini

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