Hickory - Species and Classification

Species and Classification

In the APG system, genus Carya (and the whole Juglandaceae family) has been recently moved to the Fagales order.

Asia

• Carya sect. Sinocarya – Asian hickories
  • Carya dabieshanensis – Dabie Shan Hickory (may be synonymous with C. cathayensis)
  • Carya cathayensis – Chinese Hickory
  • Carya hunanensis – Hunan Hickory
  • Carya kweichowensis – Guizhou Hickory
  • Carya poilanei - Poilane's Hickory
  • Carya tonkinensis – Vietnamese Hickory

North America

• Carya sect. Carya – typical hickories
  • Carya floridana – Scrub Hickory
  • Carya glabra – Pignut Hickory, Pignut, Sweet Pignut, Coast Pignut Hickory, Smoothbark Hickory, Swamp Hickory, Broom Hickory
  • Carya myristiciformis – Nutmeg Hickory, Swamp Hickory, Bitter Water Hickory
  • Carya ovalis – Red Hickory, Spicebark Hickory, Sweet Pignut Hickory (treated as a synonym of C. glabra by Flora N. Amer.)
  • Carya ovata – Shagbark Hickory
    • Carya ovata var. ovata – Northern Shagbark Hickory
    • Carya ovata var. australis – Southern Shagbark Hickory, Carolina Hickory (syn. C. carolinae-septentrionalis)
  • Carya laciniosa – Shellbark Hickory, Shagbark Hickory, Bigleaf Shagbark Hickory, Kingnut, Big Shellbark, Bottom Shellbark, Thick Shellbark, Western Shellbark
  • Carya pallida – Sand Hickory
  • Carya texana – Black Hickory
  • Carya tomentosa – Mockernut Hickory (syn. C. alba)
  • †Carya washingtonensis - Extinct Miocene

• Carya sect. Apocarya – pecans
  • Carya aquatica – Bitter pecan or Water Hickory
  • Carya cordiformis – Bitternut Hickory
  • Carya illinoinensis – Pecan
  • Carya palmeri – Mexican Hickory