Butternut
NativeJuglans cinerea
Walnut (Juglandaceae) · Walnut · 40–60 ft
Knowing it
Gray bark and oblong sticky nuts; a cousin of black walnut found in moist woods of the eastern Ozarks. Uncommon and declining.
What a tree company sees
Butternut canker kills most trees; dead tops and limbs are typical. Weak compared with black walnut.
Recorded in 42 counties
- Bollinger County
- Boone County
- Callaway County
- Cape Girardeau County
- Carter County
- Christian County
- Clark County
- Cole County
- Crawford County
- Dent County
- Franklin County
- Gasconade County
- Howard County
- Howell County
- Iron County
- Jasper County
- Jefferson County
- Laclede County
- Lewis County
- Lincoln County
- Madison County
- Marion County
- Oregon County
- Ozark County
- Perry County
- Pettis County
- Phelps County
- Pike County
- Polk County
- Pulaski County
- Reynolds County
- Shannon County
- St. Louis City
- St. Louis County
- Ste. Genevieve County
- Stoddard County
- Stone County
- Taney County
- Texas County
- Warren County
- Wayne County
- Webster County
From GBIF occurrence records. No record does not mean absent.