| Family | Scientific Name | Common Name | Habitat | Distribution | Image |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Juglandaceae | Carya aquatica | Water Hickory, Bitter Pecan, Pacanier amer (frc), Pacanier à cochons (frc) | Swamp forests, where flooded during the winter months. | Se. Virginia south to s. peninsular Florida, west to e. Texas, north inland to se. Missouri, s. Illinois, and se. Oklahoma. |  (c) Fleming, Gary P. |
| Juglandaceae | Carya carolinae-septentrionalis | Carolina Shagbark Hickory, Carolina Hickory | Upland flats, especially those weathered from mafic rocks and with shrink-swell soils dominated by montmorillonitic clays, less typically on slopes and bottomlands. | Sc. Virginia (Halifax County) south to Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi, and inland northward to c. Tennessee and sc. Kentucky. First reported for Virginia by Wieboldt et al. (1998). |  (c) Ware, Richard & Teresa - CC-BY-NC, permission granted to NCBG |
| Juglandaceae | Carya cordiformis | Bitternut Hickory, White Hickory | Forests and woodlands, especially in rich, moist alluvial or slope forests. | Maine and s. Québec west to Minnesota and Nebraska, south to Panhandle Florida and e. Texas. |  (c) Fleming, Gary P. |
| Juglandaceae | Carya floridana | Scrub Hickory | Florida yellow-sand scrub, longleaf pine sandhills. | N. peninsular Florida (Marion County) southward to s. Florida. |  (c) Ward, Scott G |
| Juglandaceae | Carya glabra | Pignut Hickory | In a very wide variety of forests and woodlands. | S. New Hampshire west to s. Michigan, se. Iowa, and se. Kansas, south to s. peninsular Florida and e. Texas. |  (c) Ward, Scott G |
| Juglandaceae | Carya illinoinensis | Pecan, Nogal Morado (es), Nuez Encarcelada (es), Nuez Pecana (es), Pacanier (frc) | Bottomland forests, hardwood flatwoods, swamps, margins of fields, pastures, often along larger rivers; eastwards (out of native range) introduced and persistent around dwellings and in pecan orchards, escaped to suburban woodlands, rural forest edges and floodplains, also commonly cultivated. | Sw. Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, e. Iowa south to Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, and widespread in Mexico; now also widely spread eastwards as a result of cultivation. |  (c) Bradley, Keith |
| Juglandaceae | Carya laciniosa | Shellbark Hickory, Kingnut Hickory, Big Shagbark Hickory, Riverbottom Hickory | Bottomland forests, hardwood flatwoods, swamps; rarely in mesic upland forests and on rich lower slopes. | New York and s. Ontario west to Iowa, south to North Carolina, nw. Georgia, Mississippi, and Oklahoma. This species is sometimes planted, but occurs natively in nw. Georgia, along the Roanoke River (Halifax and Northampton counties, North Carolina) and New Hope Creek (Durham County, North Carolina). |  (c) Goldman, Douglas - CC-BY-SA |
| Juglandaceae | Carya myristiciformis | Nutmeg Hickory | Hardwood flatwoods, bottomland hardwood forests, riparian and upland calcareous woodlands, nonriverine swamps over calcareous substrates, including calcareous clays and coquina limestone (‘marl’). | Se. North Carolina south to Georgia, and from wc. Alabama west to e. Texas and se. Oklahoma; disjunct in Mexico (Coahuila, Nuevo León, San Luis Potosí, Tamaulipas). First reported for North Carolina by Leonard (1971b). |  (c) Witsell, Theo - CC-BY-NC, permission granted to NCBG |
| Juglandaceae | Carya ovalis | Red Hickory | Forests and woodlands. | Massachusetts west to Wisconsin, south to Georgia, Mississippi, and Arkansas. Specimens identified as C. ovalis from e. Oklahoma (e.g., by C.S. Wallis) need confirmation. |  (c) Fleming, Gary P. |
| Juglandaceae | Carya ovata | Common Shagbark Hickory | Rich moist bottomlands, slopes, occasionally on dry upland flats. | S. Maine and s. Québec west to Minnesota and Nebraska, south to Georgia and Texas; material in Mexico is here regarded as C. mexicana. |  (c) Ogle, Jennifer - CC-BY-NC, permission granted to NCBG |
| Juglandaceae | Carya pallida | Sand Hickory, Pale Hickory | Dry sandy or rocky forests and woodlands. | S. New Jersey south to Panhandle Florida, west to Texas, inland in the interior to w. North Carolina, Kentucky, s. Illinois, and Arkansas. |  (c) Sorrie, Bruce A. - CC-BY |
| Juglandaceae | Carya texana | Black Hickory | Dry upland woodlands, glades, bluffs, sand barrens. | S. Indiana, c. Illinois, n. Missouri, and e. Kansas south to c. Kentucky, w. Tennessee, c. Mississippi, s. Louisiana, se. Texas, and c. Texas. |  (c) McAleese, Kathy - CC-BY |
| Juglandaceae | Carya tomentosa | Mockernut Hickory, White-heart Hickory | Forests and woodlands, one of the most common forest trees of much of our region. | Massachusetts west to Indiana and Iowa, south to n. peninsular Florida and Texas. |  (c) Bradley, Keith |