Juglans cinereaL.

Butternut

WFO wfo-0000355096 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Juglans cinerea, photographed by Michael J. Papay
fig. a Michael J. Papay, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-10 / obs. 204946057

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Confused withby our own model

These are not lookalikes we guessed at. Each one is a species our identification model genuinely mistook for this plant, and how many times. The error rate is published.

Flowering n = 47 observations

Flowering observations of Juglans cinerea by month
MonthObservations
Jan0
Feb0
Mar0
Apr9
May30
Jun8
Jul0
Aug0
Sep0
Oct0
Nov0
Dec0

Peak flowering in May, from 47 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 4 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Juglans cathartica F.Michx.
  • Juglans oblonga Mill.
  • Nux cinerea (L.) M.Gómez
  • Wallia cinerea (L.) Alef.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.