Hickories include shagbark hickory ("Carya ovata"). Shagbark hickories can grow to enormous sizes but are unreliable bearers. The forests consist of eastern white pine, oak, and shagbark hickory, birch and maple. American Beech, White Ash, Shagbark Hickory, and Pignut Hickory are also present. Live roost trees are usually shagbark hickory, silver maple, and white oak. Trees include paw paw, shagbark hickory, and all Nebraska-native oak species. The grave site was surrounded by a variety of trees, including six shagbark hickories. Larvae have also been reared on shagbark hickory. The bark of the shagbark hickory is also used to flavor a maple-style syrup. The shagbark hickory's nut is edible and has a very sweet taste. Scattered locations of shagbark hickory occur in the mountains of eastern Mexico. Shagbark hickory nuts were a significant food source for the Algonquins. The terminal buds on the shagbark hickory are large and covered with loose scales. The tallest measured shagbark, located in Savage Gulf, Tennessee, is over tall. It was formed in October 2009 from a merger of River Bluffs and Shagbark Councils.