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Weakley's
Flora (
4/7/08
):
Sapindaceae
Aesculus sylvatica
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS National Database:
Hippocastanaceae
Aesculus sylvatica
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Vascular
Flora of the Carolinas (1968):
Hippocastanaceae
116-01-001
Aesculus sylvatica
Common Name:
Painted Buckeye
Shrub
Tree
Perennial
Deciduous
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common
Documented growing
wild in
GA
NC
SC
Look for it in the Piedmont in mesic, nutrient-rich forests, on bottomlands, lower slopes, and in ravines, in the Coastal Plain primarily on floodplains of brownwater (alluvium-carrying) rivers (most notably the Roanoke River in NC), in the Mountains only at low elevations, per Weakley's Flora
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...Moist
Leaves:
Compound: Palmate
Opposite
Flower:
Spring
Cream/Yellow-green/Pinkish
Bisexual
5-lobed calyx
4 petals
Fruit:
Summer
Brown
Capsule
To learn more about
this plant, look it up in a good book!
A Guide to the Wildflowers of SC p182
Gardening with the Native Plants of Tennessee p276
Landscaping with Native Trees p049
Native Shrubs and Woody Vines of the Southeast p089
Trees of the Southeastern US p056
Wild Flowers of NC, 1st edition p114
Wild Flowers of NC, 2nd edition p147
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Haywood County
NC
Corneille Bryan Native Garden
Recognized by unequal yellow-green to cream flower petals, per Trees of the Southeastern US.
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SC
Clemson Forest
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