Carya pallida(Ashe) Engelm. & Graebn.

sand hickory

WFO wfo-0000588832 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Carya pallida, photographed by Ashwin Srinivasan
fig. a Ashwin Srinivasan, CC BY 4.0 / 2018-06-09 / obs. 19495006
Carya pallida, photographed by Alan Weakley
fig. b Alan Weakley, CC0 1.0 / obs. 17107090
Carya pallida, photographed by Douglas Goldman
fig. c Douglas Goldman, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 54972320
Carya pallida, photographed by Chris Hoess
fig. d Chris Hoess, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 482026
Carya pallida, photographed by Michael Ellis
fig. e Michael Ellis, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 7928155
Carya pallida, photographed by John Kees
fig. f John Kees, CC0 1.0 / obs. 203754173
Carya pallida, photographed by Will McFarland
fig. g Will McFarland, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 129868330
Carya pallida, photographed by Bonnie Semmling
fig. h Bonnie Semmling, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 89837431

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Native range 17 botanical countries

Regions where Carya pallida is native: Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, New Jersey, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia AlabamaArkansasFloridaGeorgiaIllinoisIndianaKentuckyLouisianaMarylandMississippiMissouriNew JerseyNorth CarolinaSouth CarolinaTennesseeVirginia Delaware
Native distribution of Carya pallida, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Alabama ALA NORTHERN AMERICA
Arkansas ARK
Delaware DEL
Florida FLA
Georgia GEO
Illinois ILL
Indiana INI
Kentucky KTY
Louisiana LOU
Maryland MRY
Mississippi MSI
Missouri MSO
New Jersey NWJ
North Carolina NCA
South Carolina SCA
Tennessee TEN
Virginia VRG

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 10 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Carya pallida var. apposita (Ashe) Ashe
  • Carya pallida var. arenicola (Ashe) Ashe
  • Carya pallida var. pyriformis (Ashe) Ashe
  • Hicoria pallida Ashe
  • Hicorius pallida Ashe
  • Hicorius pallida var. apposita Ashe
  • Hicorius pallida var. arenicola Ashe
  • Hicorius pallida var. arkansana Ashe
  • Hicorius pallida var. pyriformis Ashe
  • Hicorius pallida var. villosa Ashe

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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