FNPS Plant Database

Carya floridana

scrub hickory

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Nomenclature

Common Name:

scrub hickory

Synonym(s):

Genus species:

Carya floridana

Family:

Juglandaceae

Plant Specifics

Form:

tree

Size:

15-30 (47) ft

Life Span:

Long-lived perennial

Flower Color:

yellow,green

Fruit Color:

green,brown

Phenology:

Deciduous. Blooms (inconspicuous) early spring. Fruits ripe in fall.

Noted For:

Hurricane Wind Resistance, Fall Color

Landscaping

Recommended Uses:

Specimen tree. Use only where roots will be undisturbed.

Considerations:

Nuts and leaf litter can be messy.

Availability:

Native Nurseries

Propagation:

Can be grown from seed.

Light:

Full Sun, Part Sun

Moisture Tolerance:

Always Flooded------------------------------------------------Extremely Dry

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Not wet but not extremely dry ---to--- Very long very dry periods

Salt Water Flooding Tolerance:

Unknown

Salt Spray/Salty Soil Tolerance:

Low/no tolerance of salty wind or direct salt spray

Soil or Other Substrate:

Sand

Soil pH:

Acidic to circum-neutral

Suitable to Grow In:

9A,9B

USDA zones are based on the average annual extreme minimum winter temperature.



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Ecology

Wildlife:

Caterpillars, Mammals

Larval host for many moths including; luna moth ( Actias luna ), hickory leafroller moth ( Argyrotaenia juglandana ), royal walnut moth ( Citheronia regalis ), and walnut sphinx ( Amorpha juglandis .





The species is wind pollinated, but the honeybee has been observed collecting pollen from the catkins (Deyrup et al. 2002).

Fruits eaten by small mammals. 

Native Habitats:

Sandhill, clayhill, scrub

Natural Range in Florida:

Comments:

Ethnobotany:

Fruit is edible but hard to get to (takes a major whack on the shell).

General Comments:

Citations:

Deyrup, Mark; Jayanthi Edirisinghe, and Beth Norden.  2002. The diversity and floral hosts of bees at the Archbold Biological Station, Florida (Hymenoptera: Apoidea). Insecta Mundi. 544.   https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/insectamundi/544.



Haehle, Robert G. and Joan Brookwell.  1999.  Native Florida Plants.  Gulf Publishing Company.  Houston, TX.



Huegel, Craig, N.  2010.  Native plant landscaping for Florida wildlife.  University Press of Florida, Gainesville, FL. (wildlife uses)



Wunderlin, R. P., B. F. Hansen, A. R. Franck, and F. B. Essig. 2021. Atlas of Florida Plants ( https://florida.plantatlas.usf.edu/ ).  Institute for Systematic Botany, University of South Florida, Tampa.

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