Thanks so much for your help. I am currently converting some of my lawn to a river rock dry creek and some rain garden plants. Found this volunteer near my lavender pot and spent a good hour trying to figure it out. Do you use a special plant ID site or just know the plant well?

OK, mystery tree finally identified. Why the leaves did not have the distinctive pecan odor when crushed last year is still a mystery. But yesterday while watering plants at the cabin, I crushed some more leaves and it IS INDEED a pecan tree. I'm kind of glad that's what it is after all. So all of us that thought that up front were right! Of course, I'll probably be dead and gone before this 6' tree produces a pecan, but somebody will enjoy something besides hickory nuts (mostly what's down there). Never see squirrels, that love hickory nuts, because the daily hawks and a few copperheads have likely scared them all off. I've not gotten up the nerve to taste a hickory nut yet, but they are edible, I have read. We have bazillions of them on the ground each year. I hate stepping on them but also don't want to pick them all up, unless we can find an efficient/fast way to do that without killing my very bad back.

Thanks Kara! I had originally been thinking exactly the same thing. Sure there are difference but they also have similarities :) I’m glad to hear you’re in agreement! To answer your question, only one of them has flowered for me so far... but they were both in different pots at the time so I’m not entirely sure which of the two it was. I tend to think it was the one in question but I couldn’t say for certain, which isn’t very helpful is it lol. Here’s a pic anyway.

Just looking around online to see any for sale. I have a feeling this is going to be a tough one to find. Only found one place that lists it for sale but they are out of stock. Yep going to be a tough one. :-(