| Scientific Name: | Aesculus glabra |
| Common Name: | Texas buckeye, Ohio buckeye |
| Family Name: | Sapindaceae |
| Origin: | Canada - central, U.S. - central |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 3: (-40 to -34 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Tree - deciduous |
| Mature Size: | 10 - 15m x 7 - 10m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Upright |
| Form: | Oval - vertical, Round |
| Texture: | Medium - coarse |
| Landscape Uses: | Attract birds, Attract butterflies, Shade tree |
| Exposure: | Full sun, Part sun/part shade |
| Soil or Media: | Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Compound, Opposite, Soft flexible, Pinnate venation, Glabrous, Digitate (palmate), Lanceolate, Entire |
| Flowers: | Thyrse, Apr-May |
| Fruit: | Capsule, Brown, Sep-Oct |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Leaves opposite, palmately compound, leaflets 5(-7), obovate-oblanceolate, most 6-16cm long x 3-6cm wide, unpleasant odor when bruised, underside with hairs along vein axils, margin sharply serrate, petioles can be long than the leaflet; thyrse erect, 10-15cm long, florets 2.5-4cm long x 5-9mm wide, tubular, 4 greenish-yellow petals, 1-2cm long; capsules with short prickles,, rounded, 4-6cm wide, (1-)2 seeds or "buckeyes" surrounded by a leathery light brown husk. Winter ID: large terminal flower buds (not sticky and lighter colour compared to horse chestnut). | |