Juglans cinerea

Butternut or white walnut is in the Juglandaceae family and is native to the eastern United States and southeast Canada, from New Brunswick, and southern Quebec west to Minnesota, south to northern Alabama and southwest to northern Arkansas.

• Leaves are alternate, pinnately compound, 40–70 cm long, with 11–17 leaflets, each leaflet 5–10 cm long and 3–5 cm broad. The whole leaf is downy-pubescent, bright green.
• Species is monoecious. Male yellow-green catkins are up to 12 cm long; females are on solitary short stems, in groups, near ends of twigs, with small, light-pink pistils, in early summer.
• Leaf scars have 3 prominent bundle scars in the shape of "happy face", with hairy eyebrows; terminal buds are hairy, look like small leaves; pith is chambered, chocolate brown.
• Fruit is an oblong-ovoid nut 3–6 cm long and 2–4 cm broad, surrounded by a green husk, produced in bunches of two to six together.