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|accepted_name=Carya aquatica
|accepted_authority=(F. Michaux) Elliott
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Gen. N. Amer. Pl.
|place=2: 222. 1818
|year=1818
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|common_names=Water hickory;bitter pecan
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
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|code=F
|label=Selected by author to be illustrated
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|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Juglans aquatica
|authority=F. Michaux
|publication_title=Hist. Arbr. Forest.
|publication_place=1(2): 182, plate 5. 1810
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Hicoria aquatica
|authority=(F. Michaux) Britton
}}
|hierarchy=Juglandaceae;Carya;Carya aquatica
|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 aquatica]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 3
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|treatment_page=
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Trees,</b> to 46 m. <b>Bark</b> light gray or brownish, exfoliating, separating freely into long strips or broad plates, less commonly with small platelike scales. <b>Twigs</b> brown to reddish brown or black, slender, villous becoming glabrous. <b>Terminal</b> buds brown, reddish brown, or black, oblong, 8-10 mm, yellow-scaly, villous; bud scales valvate; axillary buds protected by bracteoles fused into hood. <b>Leaves</b> 4-6 dm; petiole 3-8 cm, villous becoming glabrous. <b>Leaflets</b> (5-)9-11(-13), lateral petiolules 0-2 mm, terminal petiolules (2-)6-10(-14) mm; blades ovate-lanceolate, often falcate, 2-19 × 1-4 cm, margins finely or coarsely serrate to entire and wavy, without tufts of hairs, apex acuminate; surfaces abaxially villous with unicellular and 2-8-rayed fasciculate hairs along midrib and secondary veins, densely scaly in spring with large peltate scales and small round, irregular, and 4-lobed peltate scales, adaxially villous along midrib near base, glabrous between veins. <b>Staminate</b> catkins pedunculate, to 21 cm, stalks villous, bracts scaly; anthers without hairs. <b>Fruits</b> brown, bronze, or black, obovoid, compressed, 1.5-3 × 1.5-2.5 cm; husks rough, 1 mm thick, dehiscing to base or nearly so, sutures winged; nuts chocolate brown, broadly obovoid, compressed, 2-angled, verrucose; shells thin. <b>Seeds</b> bitter. <b>2n</b> = 32.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering spring.
|habitat=Bayous, river flood plains, bluffs, and levees, temporarily flooded bottomlands
|elevation=0-200 m
|distribution=Ala.;Ark.;Fla.;Ga.;Ill.;Ky.;La.;Miss.;Mo.;N.C.;Okla.;S.C.;Tenn.;Tex.;Va.
|discussion=<p><i>Carya aquatica</i> hybridizes with <i>C. illinoinensis</i> (C. ×lecontei Little [= Hicoria texana Le Conte]) and is reported to hybridize with the tetraploid <i>C. texana</i> [C. ×ludoviciana (Ashe) Little].</p>
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name=Carya aquatica
|author=
|authority=(F. Michaux) Elliott
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Hicoria aquatica
|basionyms=Juglans aquatica
|family=Juglandaceae
|phenology=Flowering spring.
|habitat=Bayous, river flood plains, bluffs, and levees, temporarily flooded bottomlands
|elevation=0-200 m
|distribution=Ala.;Ark.;Fla.;Ga.;Ill.;Ky.;La.;Miss.;Mo.;N.C.;Okla.;S.C.;Tenn.;Tex.;Va.
|reference=None
|publication title=Gen. N. Amer. Pl.
|publication year=1818
|special status=Endemic;Selected by author to be illustrated
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|genus=Carya
|species=Carya aquatica
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