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§1 Plant

Carya texana Buckley

vernacular black hickory — species · Juglandaceae


USDA
CATE9
GBIF
3054314
Rank
species
black hickory (Carya texana)
Platephotograph · Douglas GoldmanCC BY-SA source · iNaturalist ↗

§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

· 224 counties across 8 states/territories
Legend Native · 224 Introduced · 0 Both · 0 Hover a county for detail.

§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 224 counties across 8 states/territories.

Arkansas view state ↗ 66 N
Illinois view state ↗ 29 N
Indiana view state ↗ 4 N
Kansas view state ↗ 12 N
Kentucky view state ↗ 4 N
Louisiana view state ↗ 33 N
Mississippi view state ↗ 3 N
Missouri view state ↗ 73 N

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.

plants.usda.gov/CATE9 ↗

GBIF Backbone

Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.

gbif.org/species/3054314 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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