§1 Plant
Carya ovalis (Wangenh.) Sarg.
vernacular red 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
· 276 counties across 18 states/territories§3Cultivation
No cultivation specs.
USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 276 counties across 18 states/territories.
Arkansas view state ↗ 26 N ▾
- Carroll 05015
- Cleveland 05025
- Conway 05029
- Craighead 05031
- Cross 05037
- Desha 05041
- Drew 05043
- Greene 05055
- Hempstead 05057
- Hot Spring 05059
- Jefferson 05069
- Logan 05083
- Madison 05087
- Miller 05091
- Newton 05101
- Phillips 05107
- Poinsett 05111
- Polk 05113
- Pope 05115
- Scott 05127
- Searcy 05129
- Sebastian 05131
- St. Francis 05123
- Union 05139
- Washington 05143
- Yell 05149
Delaware view state ↗ 1 N ▾
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Georgia view state ↗ 10 N ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 29 N ▾
- Anderson 21005
- Bell 21013
- Bullitt 21029
- Calloway 21035
- Campbell 21037
- Christian 21047
- Clark 21049
- Estill 21065
- Floyd 21071
- Garrard 21079
- Hardin 21093
- Henry 21103
- Jefferson 21111
- Jessamine 21113
- Kenton 21117
- Lee 21129
- Letcher 21133
- Lewis 21135
- Madison 21151
- McCreary 21147
- Meade 21163
- Montgomery 21173
- Nicholas 21181
- Owen 21187
- Powell 21197
- Robertson 21201
- Trigg 21221
- Wolfe 21237
- Woodford 21239
Louisiana view state ↗ 10 N ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 12 N ▾
Mississippi view state ↗ 11 N ▾
New Hampshire view state ↗ 4 N ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 14 N ▾
New York view state ↗ 32 N ▾
- Albany 36001
- Bronx 36005
- Cattaraugus 36009
- Cayuga 36011
- Chemung 36015
- Columbia 36021
- Dutchess 36027
- Genesee 36037
- Greene 36039
- Livingston 36051
- Monroe 36055
- Nassau 36059
- New York 36061
- Onondaga 36067
- Ontario 36069
- Orange 36071
- Putnam 36079
- Queens 36081
- Rensselaer 36083
- Richmond 36085
- Rockland 36087
- Saratoga 36091
- Schenectady 36093
- Suffolk 36103
- Sullivan 36105
- Tompkins 36109
- Ulster 36111
- Warren 36113
- Washington 36115
- Wayne 36117
- Westchester 36119
- Yates 36123
North Carolina view state ↗ 24 N ▾
- Alamance 37001
- Ashe 37009
- Buncombe 37021
- Cabarrus 37025
- Chatham 37037
- Cherokee 37039
- Clay 37043
- Dare 37055
- Davidson 37057
- Edgecombe 37065
- Forsyth 37067
- Granville 37077
- Guilford 37081
- Henderson 37089
- Macon 37113
- Mecklenburg 37119
- Mitchell 37121
- Orange 37135
- Polk 37149
- Randolph 37151
- Stanly 37167
- Surry 37171
- Swain 37173
- Wake 37183
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 35 N ▾
- Allegheny 42003
- Bedford 42009
- Blair 42013
- Butler 42019
- Cambria 42021
- Centre 42027
- Chester 42029
- Clarion 42031
- Clearfield 42033
- Clinton 42035
- Crawford 42039
- Cumberland 42041
- Delaware 42045
- Fayette 42051
- Forest 42053
- Franklin 42055
- Fulton 42057
- Greene 42059
- Huntingdon 42061
- Jefferson 42065
- Juniata 42067
- Lancaster 42071
- Luzerne 42079
- Montgomery 42091
- Northampton 42095
- Northumberland 42097
- Perry 42099
- Philadelphia 42101
- Pike 42103
- Union 42119
- Venango 42121
- Warren 42123
- Washington 42125
- Westmoreland 42129
- York 42133
Rhode Island view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Vermont view state ↗ 5 N ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 42 N ▾
- Albemarle 51003
- Alleghany 51005
- Amelia 51007
- Bath 51017
- Bedford 51019
- Botetourt 51023
- Buckingham 51029
- Campbell 51031
- Caroline 51033
- Charlotte 51037
- Chesterfield 51041
- Fairfax 51059
- Fauquier 51061
- Floyd 51063
- Frederick 51069
- Giles 51071
- Gloucester 51073
- Halifax 51083
- James City 51095
- King and Queen 51097
- King George 51099
- Lee 51105
- Loudoun 51107
- Madison 51113
- Mecklenburg 51117
- Montgomery 51121
- Newport News (city) 51700
- Northumberland 51133
- Pittsylvania 51143
- Powhatan 51145
- Prince William 51153
- Pulaski 51155
- Rappahannock 51157
- Rockbridge 51163
- Rockingham 51165
- Russell 51167
- Scott 51169
- Shenandoah 51171
- Spotsylvania 51177
- Suffolk (city) 51800
- Surry 51181
- Westmoreland 51193
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/CAOV3 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/3054334 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
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