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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Carya ovata
|accepted_authority=(Miller) K. Koch
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Dendrologie
|place=1: 598. 1869
|year=1869
}}
|common_names=Shagbark hickory;shellbark hickory;noyer tendre;caryer ovale
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Illustrated
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|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Juglans ovata
|authority=Miller
|rank=species
|publication_title=Gard. Dict. ed.
|publication_place=8, Juglans no. 6. 1768
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Hicoria ovata
|authority=(Miller) Britton
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Juglandaceae;Carya;Carya ovata
|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 ovata]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 3
|mention_page=
|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, fissured or exfoliating, separating freely into long strips or broad plates that persist, ends often curling away from trunk. <b>Twigs</b> greenish, reddish, or orangish brown, retaining color or turning black on drying, stout or slender, hirsute or glabrous. <b>Terminal</b> buds tan to dark brown to black, ovoid, 6-18 mm, tomentose or nearly glabrous; bud scales imbricate; axillary buds protected by bracteoles fused into hood. <b>Leaves</b> 3-6 dm; petiole 4-13 cm, petiole and rachis hirsute or mainly glabrous. <b>Leaflets</b> (3-)5(-7), lateral petiolules 0-1 mm, terminal petiolules 3-17 mm; blades ovate, obovate, or elliptic, not falcate, 4-26 × 1-14 cm, margins finely to coarsely serrate, with tufts of hairs in axils of proximal veins of serrations, often weathering to only a few in fall, apex acute to acuminate; surfaces abaxially hirsute with unicellular and 2-4-rayed fasciculate hairs, occasionally restricted to midrib and major veins or essentially without hairs, with few to many large peltate scales and small round, irregular, and 4-lobed peltate scales. <b>Staminate</b> catkins pedunculate, to 13 cm, stalks and bracts without hairs; anthers hirsute. <b>Fruits</b> brown to reddish brown, spheric to depressed-spheric, not compressed, 2.5-4 × 2.5-4 cm; husks rough, 4-15 mm thick, dehiscing to base, sutures smooth; nuts tan, ovoid, obovoid, or ellipsoid, compressed, 4-angled, rugulose; shells thick. <b>Seeds</b> sweet.</span><!--

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|distribution=Ont.;Que.;Ala.;Ark.;Conn.;D.C.;Del.;Ga.;Ill.;Ind.;Iowa;Kans.;Ky.;La.;Maine;Mass.;Md.;Mich.;Minn.;Miss.;Mo.;N.C.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Y.;Nebr.;Ohio;Okla.;Pa.;R.I.;S.C.;Tenn.;Tex.;Va.;Vt.;W.Va.;Wis.
|discussion=<p><i>Carya ovata</i> hybridizes with <i>C. cordiformis</i> (C. ×laneyi Sargent), <i>C. illinoinensis</i>, and <i>C. laciniosa</i> (C. ×dunbarii Sargent). The Mexican shagbark appears to be a good variety.</p><!--
--><p>The Mexican hickory (<i>Carya ovata</i> <i></i>var.<i> mexicana</i> (Hemsley) W. E. Manning) appears to be synonymous with <i>C. ovata</i>.</p><!--
--><p>Native Americans used <i>Carya ovata</i> medicinally as an antirheumatic, a gynecological aid, a tonic, and an anthelmintic (D. E. Moerman 1986).</p><!--
--><p>Varieties 3 (2 in the flora).</p>
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name=Carya ovata
|authority=(Miller) K. Koch
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Hicoria ovata
|basionyms=Juglans ovata
|family=Juglandaceae
|distribution=Ont.;Que.;Ala.;Ark.;Conn.;D.C.;Del.;Ga.;Ill.;Ind.;Iowa;Kans.;Ky.;La.;Maine;Mass.;Md.;Mich.;Minn.;Miss.;Mo.;N.C.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Y.;Nebr.;Ohio;Okla.;Pa.;R.I.;S.C.;Tenn.;Tex.;Va.;Vt.;W.Va.;Wis.
|reference=None
|publication title=Dendrologie
|publication year=1869
|special status=Illustrated
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|genus=Carya
|species=Carya ovata
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