The Native Group

Of these three main groups that of the native species is at present by far the most important. It includes the black walnut, Juglans nigra; the butternut, J. cinerea; the shagbark hickory, Hicoria ovata; the sweet hickory, H. ovalis; the pignut hickory, H. glabra; the American sweet chestnut, Castanea dentata; the American beech, Fagus americana; and two species of native hazelnut, Corylus americana; and the beaked hazelnut, C. rostrata.