Stem: bark smooth to furrowed in age, gray to gray-brown; twig centers chambered; buds scaly.
Pistillate Inflorescence: flowers 1--few; in fruit erect.
Pistillate Flower: styles elongate.
Fruit: 1--3 unwinged nuts per inflorescence; leathery husk enclosing, not separating from each nut, not splitting.
Species In Genus: 21 species: North America, temperate Asia, South America.
Etymology: (Latin: Jove's nut)
Note: Wood used for interior finishing, furniture; source of nuts, dye.
Juglans nigra L., occasionally planted, resembles
Juglans hindsii but has leaflets uniformly pubescent abaxially, nuts deeply grooved, coarsely warty.
Jepson eFlora Author: Alan T. Whittemore
Index of California Plant Names (ICPN; linked via the Jepson Online Interchange)Key to Juglans
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