🐾 eastern black walnut

Juglans nigra · wildlife atlas entry

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Juglans nigra , the eastern black walnut , is a species of deciduous tree in the walnut family, Juglandaceae, native to eastern North America. It grows mostly in riparian zones, from southern Ontario, west to southeast South Dakota, south to Georgia, northern Florida and southwest to central Texas. Wild trees in the upper Ottawa Valley may be an isolated native population or may have derived from planted trees. Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.

eastern black walnut — reference photo from iNaturalist — (c) George Afghan, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by George Afghan · cc-by-nc

Record card

Scientific name	Juglans nigra
Rank	species
Community observations	89,863 research-grade records on iNaturalist

Classification

kingdom Plantae › phylum Tracheophyta › class Magnoliopsida › order Fagales › family Juglandaceae

Seen in the wild — community photographs

eastern black walnut photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2026-10-23 · Port Credit Memorial Park, Mississauga, ON, CA
(c) sophieclj, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) · cc-by-nc

eastern black walnut photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2026-10-23 · Amberley, OH, USA
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eastern black walnut photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2026-10-14 · Peterborough, ON, Canada
(c) Erin Anderson, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) · cc-by-nc

eastern black walnut photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2026-10-23 · Cole Creek Cir, Omaha, NE, US
(c) klfreese, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) · cc-by-nc

eastern black walnut photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2026-10-22 · Peterborough, ON, CA
(c) Alexander Skevington, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) · cc-by-nc

eastern black walnut photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2026-10-20 · Orwell, VT, USA
(c) dmacdonald27, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) · cc-by-nc

eastern black walnut photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2026-10-19 · E Eighth St, Booneville, AR, US
(c) aislinn, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) · cc-by-nc

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