Carya

Accepted species 27 Documented here 11 Family Juglandaceae

Accepted species 27 in this genus

Every accepted species in the genus is listed. A name links to its page when we hold at least three commercially licensed photographs of it. Where we do not, the row shows how many we actually found, which is usually none.

SpeciesAuthority Usable photographsPage
Carya ovata (Mill.) K.Koch 1,864 documented
Carya illinoinensis (Wangenh.) K.Koch 1,561 documented
Carya cordiformis (Wangenh.) K.Koch 1,251 documented
Carya tomentosa (Lam.) Nutt. 605 documented
Carya glabra (Mill.) Sweet 602 documented
Carya aquatica (F.Michx.) Nutt. ex Elliott 137 documented
Carya floridana Sarg. 87 documented
Carya texana Buckley 68 documented
Carya pallida (Ashe) Engelm. & Graebn. 62 documented
Carya myristiciformis (F.Michx.) Nutt. ex Elliott 55 documented
Carya laciniosa (F.Michx.) G.Don 53 documented
Carya × brownii Sarg. 0 below the evidence gate
Carya × collina Laughlin 0 below the evidence gate
Carya × demareei E.J.Palmer 0 below the evidence gate
Carya × dunbarii Sarg. 0 below the evidence gate
Carya × laneyi Sarg. 0 below the evidence gate
Carya × lecontei Little 0 below the evidence gate
Carya × ludoviciana (Ashe) Little 0 below the evidence gate
Carya × nussbaumeri Sarg. 0 below the evidence gate
Carya × schneckii Sarg. 0 below the evidence gate
Carya cathayensis Sarg. 0 below the evidence gate
Carya hunanensis C.C.Cheng & R.H.Chang 0 below the evidence gate
Carya kweichowensis Kuang & A.M.Lu 0 below the evidence gate
Carya palmeri W.E.Manning 0 below the evidence gate
Carya poilanei (A.Chev.) Leroy 0 below the evidence gate
Carya sinensis Dode 0 below the evidence gate
Carya tonkinensis Lecomte 0 below the evidence gate

Why some species have no pagethe gate

This site is commercial, so it can only publish photographs licensed for commercial use. Roughly three quarters of the photographs on iNaturalist are CC BY-NC, which excludes them. A species needs at least three usable photographs before we will build it a page, because a page with one picture and no traits tells you nothing you could not get from a search result, and generating hundreds of thousands of those is precisely the practice that got the previous version of this site deleted.

So the species above without a link are not errors and they are not omissions. They are real, accepted plants that we cannot yet document to the standard we hold ourselves to, and the count in the photographs column is exactly how far short we fall.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. Accepted names, authorities, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. Photograph counts, restricted to CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA. Retrieved 2026-06-27.