| Associated species were pignut and mockernut, hickories, black gum, red maple, sassafras, sourwood, and white ash. |
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| The small sapling layer was also diverse and was dominated by sugar maple and hop hornbeam followed by pignut hickory, slippery elm, and paw paw. |
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| Black oak, red oak, chinquapin oak, bitternut hickory, and pignut hickory are common near hill summits, where the driest conditions prevail. |
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| He brought his copy with him as he carried bowls of sliced bread, bearberries, rowan-berries, and scrubbed pignut tubers out to the fledgling's glade. |
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| I now know what a pignut is: not a peanut, as I'd previously thought, but a vegetable with nodules on the underground stem. |
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| Visit in April or May to hunt for the elusive pignut. |
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| The nature reserve features plants such as knapweed, cowslip, pignut, lady's bedstraw and great burnet. |
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| The birds line up on the boughs of a pignut hickory, and swoop on to the feeders by twos and threes, titmice and juncos, a crowd of chickadees and a demure pair of cardinals. |
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| The differing habitats of the area have their own populations of flora such as cranesbill, bistort, pignut and buttercup. |
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| For those requiring more solid sustenance, the underground tubers of pignut, a small plant that grows in ancient woods, are worthy of the search, especially in May. |
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