Butternut
Juglans cinerea
Butternut, or white walnut, is a fast, spreading tree of cool moist woods bearing sweet, oily, oblong nuts. Increasingly rare due to butternut canker, making conservation plantings valuable.
- Family
- Juglandaceae
- Type
- tree
- Lifespan
- perennial
- Height
- 40–60 ft
- Spacing
- 30–50 ft apart
- Light
- sun
- Soil moisture
- moist
- Soil pH
- neutral, alkaline
- Bloom
- April, May
- Bloom colors
- yellow, green
- Wildlife value
- songbirds, larval host, mammals
- Caterpillar hosts
- ~129 butterfly & moth species
- Landscape uses
- specimen
- Native states
- AR, CT, IA, IL, IN, KY, MA, MD, MI, MN, MO, NC, NH, NJ, NY, OH, PA, SC, TN, VA, VT, WI, WV