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|accepted_name=Carya tomentosa
|accepted_authority=(Poiret) Nuttall
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Gen. N. Amer. Pl.
|place=2: 221. 1818
|year=1818
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|common_names=Mockernut hickory
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|code=E
|label=Endemic
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|code=F
|label=Illustrated
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|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Juglans tomentosa
|authority=Poiret
|rank=species
|publication_title=in J. Lamarck et al., Encycl.
|publication_place=4: 504. 1798
}}
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Juglandaceae;Carya;Carya tomentosa
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Juglandaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Carya]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Carya tomentosa]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 3
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Trees,</b> to 36 m. <b>Bark</b> dark gray, fissured or ridged. <b>Twigs</b> reddish brown, stout, hirsute and scaly. <b>Terminal</b> buds tan (after early loss of outer scales), broadly ovoid, 8-20 mm, tomentose; bud scales imbricate; axillary buds protected by bracteoles fused into hood. <b>Leaves</b> 3-5 dm; petiole 3-12 cm, petiole and rachis hirsute, with conspicuous large and small round peltate scales. <b>Leaflets</b> (5-)7-9, lateral petiolules 0-2 mm, terminal petiolules 2-13 mm; blades ovate to elliptic or obovate, not falcate, 4-19 × 2-8 cm, margins finely to coarsely serrate, apex acute, rarely acuminate; surfaces abaxially hirsute with unicellular, 2-8-rayed fasciculate and multiradiate hairs, and with large and small round peltate scales abundant, adaxially hirsute along midrib and major veins, puberulent with fasciculate hairs and scales in spring. <b>Staminate</b> catkins pedunculate, to 14 cm, stalks and bracts hirsute, scaly, apex of each bract with coarse hairs; anthers hirsute. <b>Fruits</b> reddish brown, finely mottled, spheric to ellipsoid or obovoid, not compressed to compressed, 3-5 × 3-5 cm; husks rough, 4-10 mm thick, dehiscing to middle or nearly to base, sutures smooth; nuts tan, spheric to ellipsoid, compressed, prominently to faintly 4-angled, rugulose; shells thick. <b>Seeds</b> sweet. <b>2n</b> = 64.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering spring.
|habitat=Well-drained sandy soils, rolling hills and rocky hillsides, occasionally on limestone outcrops
|elevation=0-900 m
|distribution=Ala.;Ark.;Conn.;Del.;Fla.;Ga.;Ill.;Ind.;Iowa;Kans.;Ky.;La.;Md.;Mass.;Miss.;Mo.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;Ohio;Okla.;Pa.;R.I.;S.C.;Tenn.;Tex.;Va.;W.Va.
|discussion=<p>Both the mockernut hickory and the shagbark hickory were formerly known as <i>Carya</i> alba (Linnaeus) K. Koch [or Hicoria alba (Linnaeus) Britton], based on <i>Juglans</i> alba of Linnaeus. A. J. Rehder (1945) pointed out that the original circumscription included two taxa, and C. alba (J. alba) should therefore be rejected as ambiguous in favor of <i>C. tomentosa</i> and <i>C. ovata</i>, respectively.</p><!--
--><p><i>Carya tomentosa</i> hybridizes with <i>C. texana</i> (C. ×collina Laughlin) and is reported to hybridize with the diploid <i>C. illinoinensis</i> (C. ×schneckii Sargent).</p><!--
--><p>Cherokee Indians used <i>Carya tomentosa</i> medicinally as an analgesic, especially as an aid for polio, and as an oral and a cold aid; the Delaware, as a gynecological aid and a tonic (D. E. Moerman 1986).</p>
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name=Carya tomentosa
|authority=(Poiret) Nuttall
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Juglans tomentosa
|family=Juglandaceae
|phenology=Flowering spring.
|habitat=Well-drained sandy soils, rolling hills and rocky hillsides, occasionally on limestone outcrops
|elevation=0-900 m
|distribution=Ala.;Ark.;Conn.;Del.;Fla.;Ga.;Ill.;Ind.;Iowa;Kans.;Ky.;La.;Md.;Mass.;Miss.;Mo.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;Ohio;Okla.;Pa.;R.I.;S.C.;Tenn.;Tex.;Va.;W.Va.
|reference=None
|publication title=Gen. N. Amer. Pl.
|publication year=1818
|special status=Endemic;Illustrated
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|genus=Carya
|species=Carya tomentosa
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