Carya glabra

• BOTANICAL NAME: Carya glabra
• COMMON NAME: Pignut Hickory
• FAMILY: Juglandaceae
• NATIVITY: Found throughout woodlands from Pennsylvania to Florida.
• GROWTH HABIT: 50-60’
• HARDINESS:  USDA Zone 4 to 9
• OPTIMUM GROWING CONDITIONS:  Moist to dry soils and rich woodlands.  Full sun.
• SUCCESSIONAL STATUS: Climax
• FACULTATIVE STATUS: Facultative Upland
• LANDSCAPE VALUE:  Tall specimen with yellow fall color.
• FOLIAGE:   Alternate, pinnately compound.  The terminal leaflet is the largest, with usually five to seven leaflets per leaf.  Yellow fall color.
• BUDS:  Imbricately scaled, though the outer two scales color sixty percent of the bud.
• BARK:  Rich and furrowed but not identifiable.
• FRUIT:  Hard nuts encased in a four-valved husk.
• PESTS:  None serious.