pignut hickory
carya glabra latin

The range of pignut hickory covers nearly all of eastern United States (11).

Pignut hickory is difficult to reproduce from cuttings.

Pignut Hickory is also found in Canada in southern Ontario.

Pignut hickory is easily damaged by fire, which causes stem degrade or loss of volume, or both.

A large Pignut Hickory and Black Walnut trees shade the garage.

Pignut hickory tends to develop a pronounced taproot with few laterals and is rated as windfirm (21).

In the Great Smoky Mountains pignut hickory has been observed on dry sandy soils at low elevations.

Husks of pignut hickory split only to the middle or slightly beyond and generally cling to the nut, which is unribbed, with a thick shell.

The most common disease of pignut hickory from Pennsylvania southward is a trunk rot caused by Poria spiculosa.

The scrub hickory intergrades with the pignut hickory (Carya glabra) where ranges overlap.

Pignut hickory is an important shade tree in wooded suburban areas over most of the range but is seldom planted as an ornamental tree.

Sarg., coast pignut hickory, was once recognized as a distinct variety but is now considered to be a synonym of C. glabra (Mill.)

The following height growth of pignut hickory seedlings was reported in the Ohio Valley in the open or under light shade, on red clay soil (2):

American Beech, White Ash, Shagbark Hickory, and Pignut Hickory are also present.

Pignut hickory frequently grows on dry ridgetops and sideslopes throughout its range but it is also common on moist sites, particularly in the mountains and Piedmont.

Carya glabra, the Pignut hickory, is a common but not abundant species in the oak-hickory forest association in the Eastern United States and Canada.

Diameter growth of pignut hickory (along with chestnut oak, white oak, sweet birch (Betula lenta), and American beech is rated slow.

This discrepancy has not yet been completely resolved, and some sources and authors still consider Red Hickory as a variety or synonym of Pignut Hickory.

Tree species include pignut hickory, tulip poplar, loblolly pine, longleaf pine, southern magnolia, black cherry, wax myrtle and chinquapin.

Among the list of rare species located in Ball's Falls are three tree species including Sycamore, Sassafras and Pignut Hickory.

Other common names are pignut, sweet pignut, coast pignut hickory, smoothbark hickory, swamp hickory, and broom hickory.

Pignut hickory is an associated species in 20 of the 90 forest cover types listed by the Society of American Foresters for the eastern United States (6):

This species was formerly treated as a variety or northern ecotype of the Pignut Hickory C. glabra, described as Carya glabra var.

According to one classification of climate (20), the range of pignut hickory south of the Ohio River, except for a small area in Florida, is designated as humid, mesothermal.

Tree species include American basswood, black birch, hornbeam, Northern red oak, pignut hickory, shagbark hickory, red maple, sugar maple, white ash, and white pine.

Carya glabra (N)

The scrub hickory intergrades with the pignut hickory (Carya glabra) where ranges overlap.

Swamp hickory (Carya glabra) and water hickory (Carya aquatica) are also found here.

The larvae feed on Carya species, including Carya glabra, Carya ovalis and Carya tomentosa.

They include pignut (Carya glabra) and mockernut hickory (Carya tomentosa), both of which grow on a variety of sites from dry ridges to mesic habitats.

The general list of recorded hosts contains hickories (Carya glabra, Carya illinoensis, Carya ovata), Buttonbush, Filbert, Bush honeysuckle, Persimmon, Ash, Cotton, Butternut, Black walnut, English walnut and Privet among others.

The cemetery currently features more than 500 species of trees and shrubs, including some two dozen current state champion trees, including both native species such as pignut hickory (Carya glabra) and exotics such as Caucasian wingnut (Pterocarya fraxinifolia).