Carya tomentosa

• BOTANICAL NAME: Carya tomentosa
• COMMON NAME: Mockernut Hickory
• FAMILY: Juglandaceae
• NATIVITY:  Found throughout from Pennsylvania to Illinois to Texas
• GROWTH HABIT:  50-60’ (100’)
• HARDINESS:  USDA Zone 4 to 9
• OPTIMUM GROWING CONDITIONS:  Found on rocky slopes and dry hills but grows best in moist soils.  
• SUCCESSIONAL STATUS: Climax
• FACULTATIVE STATUS: Facultative Upland
• LANDSCAPE VALUE:  Grows well in moist areas and has a nice fall color.
• FOLIAGE:   Alternate, pinnately compound, usually seven to nine leaflets per leaf.  The lower two leaflets are considerably smaller than the other five.  Yellow fall color.
• BUDS:  Buds have pubescence.
• BARK: Bark is finely furrowed and gray, pubescence makes this distinguishable.
• FRUIT:  Hard nuts encased in a four-valved husk.
• PESTS:  None serious.