Water Hickory
Carya aquaticanative · Central Texas
Water Hickory is a tree native to Central Texas that grows 119 ft tall. It wants full sun or part shade and medium water. Blooms yellow in mid spring. Good for butterflies.
Wet ground only. A wetland plant: it needs standing water or saturated soil — a pond edge, creek bank or rain garden, not a dry upland bed.
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The facts
4 sources- Type
- Tree
- Sun
- Full sun to part shade (3–6 hrs of direct sun)
- Water
- Medium
- Height
- About 119 ft
- Bloom
- Mid Spring · yellow
- Foliage
- Deciduous or dies back in winter
- Wildlife
- Supports butterflies
Where it grows
4 occurrence records in Central Texas (GBIF).
Can you buy it?
Also grows here — hard to find. Native and recorded growing in Central Texas, but not on the grower stock lists we read. Sourcing varies: some are stocked widely, others you will have to hunt for.
also grows from seed It starts readily from seed, so a packet from a native-seed supplier, or seed collected with permission, is often the easiest way to get a plant no nursery pots.