Trees of Alabama and the Southeast Home Page

Leaves are alternate, deciduous and pinnately compound with 7-9 lanceolate to obovate leaflets with silvery-blue to silvery-yellow scales on the underside and a lightly pubescent rachis.  Twigs and terminal buds are similar to pignut hickory but are yellow-glandular.  Bark is gray-brown and ridged.  Nut is similar to pignut hickory but the husk has yellow scales.  Sand hickory is found on dry sandy sites in the eastern Coastal Plain and is intermediate in shade tolerance. The hard wood is used for fuel and the nuts are eaten by many small animals. 

Click on photo to enlarge.                    

All text and photographs are intended for educational purposes only and are not for commercial use in any form.  All photographs are copyrighted by the named photographer(s), text copyright by Lisa Samuelson. © 2005, all rights reserved. Photographs by Mike Hogan.