Juglans cinerea
Syst. Nat. ed. 10, 1272. 1759.
Trees, to 20 (-30) m. Bark light gray or gray-brown, shallowly divided into smooth or scaly plates. Twigs with distal edge of leaf-scar straight or nearly so, bordered by well-defined, tan-gray, velvety ridge; pith dark-brown. Terminal buds conic, flattened, 12-18 mm. Leaves 30-60 cm; petiole 3.5-12 cm. Leaflets (7-) 11-17, ovate to lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, ± symmetric, (2.5-) 5-11 (-17.5) × 1.5-6.5 cm, margins serrate, apex acuminate; surfaces abaxially with abundant 4-8-rayed fasciculate hairs, scales, and sometimes capitate-glandular hairs, axils of proximal veins with prominent tufts of fasciculate hairs, adaxially with scattered fasciculate hairs or becoming glabrescent; terminal leaflet present, usually large. Staminate catkins 6-14 cm; stamens 7-15 per flower; pollen-sacs 0.8-1.2 mm. Fruits 3-5, ellipsoid to ovoid or cylindric, 4-8 cm, smooth, with dense capitate-glandular hairs; nuts ellipsoid to subcylindric or ovoid, 3-6 cm, surface with ca. 8 high, narrow, longitudinal main ridges, with narrow, interrupted, longitudinal ridges or lamellae between main ridges.
Phenology: Flowering spring (Apr–Jun).
Habitat: Rich woods of river terraces and valleys, also dry rocky slopes
Elevation: 0-1000 m
Distribution
N.B., Ont., Que., Ala., Ark., Conn., Del., Ga., Ill., Ind., Iowa, Ky., Maine, Md., Mass., Mich., Minn., Miss., Mo., N.H., N.J., N.Y., N.C., Ohio, Pa., R.I., S.C., Tenn., Vt., Va., W.Va., Wis.
Discussion
Of conservation concern.
The butternut canker is killing Juglans cinerea across its range. Because the trees do not root-sprout, the range is contracting.
Selected References
None.