Common Name - Ohio Buckeye

Scientific Name - Aesculus glabra

Description: a small to medium-sized tree (sometimes shrubby), frequently attaining a height of 20 to 40 feet; has been known to attain a height of about 90 feet with a trunk up to 2 feet in diameter, with rounded, irregular crown. Tree located at
Friendship Park
Mattoon, Illinois
The Ohio Buckeye Tree

Description:
a small to medium-sized tree (sometimes shrubby), frequently attaining a height of 20 to 40 feet;  has been known to attain a height of about 90 feet with a trunk up to 2 feet in diameter, with rounded, irregular crown.

Habitat:
typically a bottomland tree, frequenting the banks of the rivers and creeks, but will grow in valleys and mountains slopes with moist, rich soils;  may form thickets near streams.  It attains its best development in the lower Ohio and upper Mississippi River valley.
     Range:  from southwestern Pennsylvania west to Iowa, south to northern Alabama and northeastern Texas.

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