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This Buckeye is not a tall tree, its maximum height being 50 feet, with a trunk diameter of 1 1-2 feet. The bark is gray brown, rough, and with slight perpendicular seams. The leaves are made up of 5 to 7 (usually 5) oval, tapering leaflets that are unevenly double-toothed. The flowers are light green, with 4 petals, blooming from April to May. The fruit pod is smooth and 1 1/2 inches with scattered soft spines when young, and is warty when old. It is at first green then turning brown, and it contains two seeds. The Ohio Buckeye is common in woodlands and riverbanks in the middle west, and can be found from the western slopes of the Allegheny Mountains in Pennsylvania west to Okalahoma, and south to northern Georgia.
Information about this plant from the USDA Plants Database.
Information from the TreeGuide from Athenic Systems.
This page was last updated 11 Jun 2003.