Water Hickory, Bitter Pecan

Description:

The bark grayish or light brown, eventually splitting freely into plate-like, red-tinged scales. Fruit is a 4-ribbed, thick-walled, ovoid to ellipsoidal nut. Leaflet margins finely serrate. Leaflet surfaces are dark green and glabrous above, paler below.

Habitat:

The water hickory grows river banks and in floodplain forests where flooding is brief. It is found on the coastal plain from southeast Virginia to south central Florida; west to Texas, north to southeastern Arkansas, western Mississippi, southwestern Missouri, southern Illinois, and western Tennessee.