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Characteristics
 Family-
Juglandaceae--The Walnut Family
- Origin
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Native NC
- Plant Description
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Deciduous tree to 50 feet; leaves alternate, once pinnately compound with 5 or 7 leaflets; flowers April to May as leaves unfold, male flowers in drooping clusters, female flowers resembling tiny nuts, at tips of new growth; fruit maturing in fall, nuts in tough, splitting, pear-shaped husks.
- Ornamental Characteristics
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Hickories have beautiful yellow fall color.
- Landscape Use
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Specimen or shade tree.
- Horticultural Cultivars
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None.
- Availability/Propagation
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Not available in nurseries. Propagate from seed.
- Culture
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Preserve in landscape if it is found on the property.
- Coastal Ecology
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Pignut hickory grows on dry, stable dunes and in low, moist swales in the maritime forest. It is salt tolerant, growing withing 20 feet of the shoreline next to sounds and tidal creeks, where it takes on a wind-sheared appearance. The fall color is a brilliant gold, peaking late in the season. The nuts are a preferred food of squirrels, chipmunks and some birds.
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