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§1 Plant
Carya aquatica (Michx. f.) Nutt.
vernacular water hickory — species · Juglandaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Tree
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Juglandaceae DC. ex Perleb
- Genus
- Carya
§2a
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 170 counties across 6 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- Medium
- Shade
- Medium
- Moisture use
- Medium
- Fire
- Medium
- Salinity
- None
- Anaerobic
- Medium
- CaCO₃
- Low
- Hedging
- None
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- -18 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 200 min.
- Precipitation
- 35–70 in/yr
- pH range
- 4–7.3
- Root depth
- 48 in min.
- Fertility need
- Medium
- Soil texture
- coarse, medium, fine
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Single Stem
- Growth rate
- Slow
- Lifespan
- Moderate
- Mature height
- 85 ft
- Height @ 20 y
- 30 ft
- Foliage texture
- Coarse
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Dense
- Porosity (winter)
- Porous
- Flower colour
- Yellow
- Fruit colour
- Brown
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- None
- Toxicity
- None
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Mid Spring
- Seed abundance
- Medium
- Seed begins
- Summer
- Seed ends
- Fall
- Spread rate
- Slow
- Stratify
- Yes
- Seeds / lb
- 200
- Propagation
- seed, bare root, container
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- Routinely Available
- Nursery stock
- No
- Browse palatability
- Low
- Graze palatability
- Low
- Palatable, human
- No
- Lumber
- No
- Fuelwood
- High
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 170 counties across 6 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 34 N ▾
- Baldwin 01003
- Barbour 01005
- Bibb 01007
- Bullock 01011
- Chambers 01017
- Choctaw 01023
- Coffee 01031
- Crenshaw 01041
- Dale 01045
- Dallas 01047
- Elmore 01051
- Escambia 01053
- Fayette 01057
- Greene 01063
- Hale 01065
- Henry 01067
- Houston 01069
- Jackson 01071
- Lee 01081
- Limestone 01083
- Lowndes 01085
- Macon 01087
- Madison 01089
- Mobile 01097
- Montgomery 01101
- Morgan 01103
- Perry 01105
- Pike 01109
- Russell 01113
- Shelby 01117
- Sumter 01119
- Tallapoosa 01123
- Tuscaloosa 01125
- Washington 01129
Arkansas view state ↗ 52 N ▾
- Arkansas 05001
- Ashley 05003
- Bradley 05011
- Calhoun 05013
- Chicot 05017
- Clark 05019
- Clay 05021
- Cleveland 05025
- Columbia 05027
- Craighead 05031
- Crawford 05033
- Crittenden 05035
- Cross 05037
- Dallas 05039
- Desha 05041
- Drew 05043
- Faulkner 05045
- Garland 05051
- Grant 05053
- Greene 05055
- Hempstead 05057
- Hot Spring 05059
- Independence 05063
- Jackson 05067
- Jefferson 05069
- Lafayette 05073
- Lawrence 05075
- Lee 05077
- Lincoln 05079
- Little River 05081
- Lonoke 05085
- Miller 05091
- Mississippi 05093
- Monroe 05095
- Nevada 05099
- Ouachita 05103
- Phillips 05107
- Pike 05109
- Poinsett 05111
- Pope 05115
- Prairie 05117
- Pulaski 05119
- Randolph 05121
- Saline 05125
- Scott 05127
- Sevier 05133
- St. Francis 05123
- Union 05139
- Washington 05143
- White 05145
- Woodruff 05147
- Yell 05149
Florida view state ↗ 38 N ▾
- Alachua 12001
- Brevard 12009
- Calhoun 12013
- Citrus 12017
- Columbia 12023
- DeSoto 12027
- Duval 12031
- Escambia 12033
- Flagler 12035
- Franklin 12037
- Gadsden 12039
- Gilchrist 12041
- Hamilton 12047
- Hardee 12049
- Hendry 12051
- Indian River 12061
- Jackson 12063
- Jefferson 12065
- Lafayette 12067
- Lake 12069
- Lee 12071
- Levy 12075
- Liberty 12077
- Marion 12083
- Martin 12085
- Osceola 12097
- Palm Beach 12099
- Polk 12105
- Putnam 12107
- Santa Rosa 12113
- Seminole 12117
- St. Johns 12109
- St. Lucie 12111
- Suwannee 12121
- Taylor 12123
- Volusia 12127
- Wakulla 12129
- Walton 12131
Georgia view state ↗ 25 N ▾
- Baker 13007
- Ben Hill 13017
- Bryan 13029
- Bulloch 13031
- Burke 13033
- Chatham 13051
- Clarke 13059
- Columbia 13073
- Dougherty 13095
- Effingham 13103
- Emanuel 13107
- Henry 13151
- Houston 13153
- Jackson 13157
- Jefferson 13163
- Johnson 13167
- Lee 13177
- Long 13183
- McIntosh 13191
- Screven 13251
- Sumter 13261
- Tattnall 13267
- Telfair 13271
- Wilkes 13317
- Worth 13321
Kentucky view state ↗ 9 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/CAAQ2 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/8246850 ↗Record version
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