Carya aquatica Southeastern Native when most of the other

when most of the other asters have already finished and the garden is otherwise leaning toward seed heads

depending on how attached one is to the foliage

okra-like mucilage that thickens soups and stews

above all for healing wounds

where the bold

Carya aquatica Southeastern Native when most of the otherCarya aquatica, the water hickory or bitter pecan, is a large native tree of the walnut family, reaching ninety feet and more in the wild. Across the American South the species dominates clay flats and the backwater ground near streams and rivers, reproducing aggressively by seed and by sprouts from roots and cut stumps, and forming a major part of the region's wetland forests, in part because the more marketable timber trees around the water hickory