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§1 Plant
Aesculus glabra Willd.
vernacular Ohio buckeye — species · Hippocastanaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Tree
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Hippocastanaceae A. Rich.
- Genus
- Aesculus
§2a
Native status, by region
- CAN Canada Native
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 158 counties across 10 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- Medium
- Shade
- Low
- Moisture use
- Medium
- Fire
- Low
- Salinity
- None
- Anaerobic
- None
- CaCO₃
- Medium
- Hedging
- None
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- -33 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 145 min.
- Precipitation
- 30–60 in/yr
- pH range
- 5–7.1
- Root depth
- 36 in min.
- Fertility need
- Medium
- Soil texture
- medium, fine
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Single Stem
- Growth rate
- Rapid
- Lifespan
- Short
- Mature height
- 68 ft
- Height @ 20 y
- 25 ft
- Foliage texture
- Coarse
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Dense
- Porosity (winter)
- Porous
- Flower colour
- Green
- Fruit colour
- Brown
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- None
- Toxicity
- Severe
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Mid Spring
- Seed abundance
- Medium
- Seed begins
- Spring
- Seed ends
- Fall
- Spread rate
- Slow
- Stratify
- Yes
- Seeds / lb
- 58
- Propagation
- seed, bare root, container
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- Routinely Available
- Nursery stock
- Yes
- Browse palatability
- Low
- Graze palatability
- Low
- Palatable, human
- No
- Lumber
- Yes
- Fuelwood
- Medium
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 158 counties across 10 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 7 N ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 31 N ▾
- Baxter 05005
- Benton 05007
- Boone 05009
- Carroll 05015
- Clay 05021
- Conway 05029
- Crawford 05033
- Crittenden 05035
- Franklin 05047
- Fulton 05049
- Hempstead 05057
- Howard 05061
- Johnson 05071
- Lawrence 05075
- Little River 05081
- Logan 05083
- Madison 05087
- Marion 05089
- Miller 05091
- Montgomery 05097
- Newton 05101
- Polk 05113
- Pope 05115
- Scott 05127
- Searcy 05129
- Sebastian 05131
- Sevier 05133
- Stone 05137
- Van Buren 05141
- Washington 05143
- Yell 05149
Georgia view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 79 N ▾
- Adair 21001
- Allen 21003
- Ballard 21007
- Barren 21009
- Bath 21011
- Boone 21015
- Bourbon 21017
- Boyle 21021
- Bracken 21023
- Breckinridge 21027
- Bullitt 21029
- Caldwell 21033
- Campbell 21037
- Carlisle 21039
- Carroll 21041
- Casey 21045
- Christian 21047
- Clark 21049
- Clay 21051
- Clinton 21053
- Crittenden 21055
- Cumberland 21057
- Daviess 21059
- Edmonson 21061
- Elliott 21063
- Estill 21065
- Fayette 21067
- Fleming 21069
- Floyd 21071
- Franklin 21073
- Gallatin 21077
- Garrard 21079
- Grant 21081
- Grayson 21085
- Green 21087
- Greenup 21089
- Hardin 21093
- Harrison 21097
- Hart 21099
- Henderson 21101
- Henry 21103
- Jefferson 21111
- Jessamine 21113
- Kenton 21117
- Larue 21123
- Laurel 21125
- Lewis 21135
- Lincoln 21137
- Logan 21141
- Lyon 21143
- Madison 21151
- Mason 21161
- McLean 21149
- Meade 21163
- Mercer 21167
- Metcalfe 21169
- Monroe 21171
- Montgomery 21173
- Nelson 21179
- Nicholas 21181
- Oldham 21185
- Owen 21187
- Pendleton 21191
- Powell 21197
- Robertson 21201
- Rockcastle 21203
- Russell 21207
- Scott 21209
- Shelby 21211
- Simpson 21213
- Spencer 21215
- Taylor 21217
- Todd 21219
- Trigg 21221
- Trimble 21223
- Warren 21227
- Washington 21229
- Wayne 21231
- Woodford 21239
New Hampshire view state ↗ 1 N ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 3 N ▾
New York view state ↗ 9 N ▾
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 17 N ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 1 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/AEGL ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/3189806 ↗Record version
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