bitternut hickory
carya cordiformis latin

Bitternut hickory and northern red oak also may be common in the canopy.

Bitternut hickory is cut and sold in mixture with the true hickories.

Bitternut hickory seeds and its bark are eaten by wildlife.

Bitternut hickory grows in moist mountain valleys along streambanks and in swamps.

Silvical characteristics of bitternut hickory.

Potential for a 'Greenbelt' Meanwhile, the estate sits in quiet abandonment under bitternut hickory trees and copper beeches and black oaks.

They range from a four-foot-tall variegated box elder in Huntington to a 142-foot bitternut hickory in Locust Valley.

Because bitternut hickory wood is hard and durable, it is used for furniture, paneling, dowels, tool handles and ladders.

As the altitude increases, the vegetation passes from sugar maple, bitternut hickory at the base, to northern red oak, sugar maple on the summit.

Unlike forests further to the north, southern tree species such as hickory also occur (see Bitternut hickory, Shagbark hickory).

Deciduous trees such as American beech, sugar maple, red maple, northern red oak, white ash, bitternut hickory and American basswood are dominant.

Ontario Tree Atlas: Bitternut Hickory (Carya Cordiformis)

Near the northern limit of the Carolinian forest region and supports a mature forest of sugar maple, white ash, black cherry, bitternut hickory, beech and butternut.

Wateree trillium grows under a canopy of deciduous trees such as bitternut hickory, black walnut, slippery elm, box-elder, and various oak species, in rich floodplain soils.

Other canopy species include American beech, black oak, northern red oak, southern red oak, pignut hickory, bitternut hickory, mockernut hickory, winged elm and red maple.

Canopy species in this forest type include American basswood, tulip poplar, sugar maple, red maple, yellow birch, beech, white ash, bigleaf magnolia, bitternut hickory, and Eastern hemlock.

Riparian Woodland - green ash, eastern cottonwood, elm, hackberry, bitternut hickory, silver maple, honey locust, red mulberry, bur aak, osage-orange, sycamore, black walnut, and black willow.

Carya cordiformis, the Bitternut Hickory, also called bitternut or swamp hickory, is a large pecan hickory with commercial stands located mostly north of the other pecan hickories.

Trees found in the woods include the sugar maple, the basswood, the red oak, the Bitternut Hickory, the Hackberry, the Butternut tree, the Slippery Elm and the white oak.

In the mid-slopes of the forest the major species of trees are Bitternut Hickory, Black Oak, Black Gum, Flowering Dogwood, Sourwood, Southern Red Oak and White Oak.

Key indicator tree and shrub species of the oak-hickory forest include red oak, black oak, scarlet oak, white oak, chestnut oak, pignut hickory, bitternut hickory, shagbark hickory, flowering dogwood, blueberry, mountain laurel, and hawthorn.

The house sat between the two barns-one new, one the original-in the middle of a rough, grassy field punctuated with patches of black-eyed Susans, hop clover and bluestem, a stand of bitternut hickory trees, a beautiful American beech and eastern white pines.

Apart from its historic and religious significance, Pahuk is of interest to biologists, as lying near the westernmost point in the Platte Valley distribution of a number of eastern woodland plant species, including bitternut hickory, black walnut, American linden, and Dutchman's breeches.

The lower Maitland (to Wingham) has a trout and salmon run, and is home to several species at risk including Queen snake, Wavy-rayed Lampmussel and Butternut tree, as well as several Carolinian forest species, including Bitternut hickory, American Sycamore, Summer grape and Green dragon.

The arboretum also once had the New Jersey State Champion Carya cordiformis tree, but it was struck by lightning in the fall of 1997 destroying it.

Ontario Tree Atlas: Bitternut Hickory (Carya Cordiformis)