Index / Search / Aesculus sylvatica
§1 Plant
Aesculus sylvatica W. Bartram
vernacular painted buckeye — species · Hippocastanaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Shrub, Tree
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Hippocastanaceae A. Rich.
- Genus
- Aesculus
§2a
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 76 counties across 5 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- Low
- Shade
- Medium
- Moisture use
- High
- Fire
- Low
- Salinity
- None
- Anaerobic
- Low
- CaCO₃
- Medium
- Hedging
- None
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- 7 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 200 min.
- Precipitation
- 40–80 in/yr
- pH range
- 5–7
- Root depth
- 36 in min.
- Fertility need
- High
- Soil texture
- medium
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Single Stem
- Growth rate
- Moderate
- Lifespan
- Long
- Mature height
- 65 ft
- Height @ 20 y
- 30 ft
- Foliage texture
- Coarse
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Dense
- Porosity (winter)
- Porous
- Flower colour
- Yellow
- Fruit colour
- Brown
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- None
- Toxicity
- Severe
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Mid Spring
- Seed abundance
- Medium
- Seed begins
- Summer
- Seed ends
- Fall
- Spread rate
- Slow
- Stratify
- Yes
- Seeds / lb
- 40
- Propagation
- seed, bare root, container
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- No Known Source
- Nursery stock
- Yes
- Browse palatability
- Low
- Palatable, human
- No
- Lumber
- No
- Fuelwood
- Medium
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 76 counties across 5 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 10 N ▾
Georgia view state ↗ 28 N ▾
- Baldwin 13009
- Bartow 13015
- Burke 13033
- Cherokee 13057
- Clarke 13059
- Cobb 13067
- Dawson 13085
- Elbert 13105
- Forsyth 13117
- Fulton 13121
- Glascock 13125
- Gordon 13129
- Greene 13133
- Gwinnett 13135
- Habersham 13137
- Hall 13139
- Hart 13147
- Jackson 13157
- Jasper 13159
- Lincoln 13181
- Madison 13195
- Meriwether 13199
- Morgan 13211
- Newton 13217
- Oconee 13219
- Oglethorpe 13221
- Rabun 13241
- Upson 13293
Mississippi view state ↗ 1 N ▾
North Carolina view state ↗ 28 N ▾
- Alamance 37001
- Anson 37007
- Bertie 37015
- Cabarrus 37025
- Chatham 37037
- Cherokee 37039
- Cumberland 37051
- Davidson 37057
- Durham 37063
- Franklin 37069
- Granville 37077
- Guilford 37081
- Halifax 37083
- Harnett 37085
- Jackson 37099
- Lee 37105
- Martin 37117
- Montgomery 37123
- Moore 37125
- Orange 37135
- Randolph 37151
- Richmond 37153
- Rowan 37159
- Stanly 37167
- Union 37179
- Vance 37181
- Wake 37183
- Warren 37185
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/AESY ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/3189816 ↗Record version
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