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Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Rosids: Malvids: Sapindales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Aesculus hippocastanum   FAMILY Sapindaceae   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Aesculus hippocastanum   FAMILY Hippocastanaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Aesculus hippocastanum

 

COMMON NAME:
Horsechestnut


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image of Aesculus hippocastanum, Horsechestnut

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / US Forest Service    pnd_aescu_002_lvp

        

image of Aesculus hippocastanum, Horsechestnut

Richard and Teresa Ware    rtw_a_hippocastanum_2

May    Suffolk County    MA

Arnold Arboretum

A tree 50-75' tall, usually a spread of 40-70'. Can grow to 100' or taller, per Manual of Woody Landscape Plants (Dirr, 1975+).

image of Aesculus hippocastanum, Horsechestnut

Richard and Teresa Ware    rtw_a_hippocastanum_9

May    Suffolk County    MA

Arnold Arboretum

image of Aesculus hippocastanum, Horsechestnut

Richard and Teresa Ware    rtw_a_hippocastanum_c

August        

Flowers white with a blotch of yellow at the base which turns reddish, per Manual of Woody Landscape Plants (Dirr, 1975+).

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Aesculus hippocastanum   FAMILY Sapindaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Aesculus hippocastanum   FAMILY Hippocastanaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Aesculus hippocastanum

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

3580

Tree
Perennial

Habitat: Urban and suburban areas, perhaps not definitely naturalized, but fairly often planted as a street tree and escaping as seedlings in the vicinity of plantings, per Weakley's Flora

Non-native: southeast Europe

Waif(s)

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LEAVES:
Deciduous
Palmately compound: (5)7 leaflets
Opposite

FLOWER:
Spring
White with red spots & yellow claw
5-8 sepals
4-5 petals
Bisexual

Flowers in terminal panicles

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Brown
Capsule

 

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