Aesculus flava

• BOTANICAL NAME: Aesculus flava
• COMMON NAME: Yellow Buckeye
• FAMILY: Hippocastanaceae
• NATIVITY: Tennessee to Georgia, west to Illinois
• GROWTH HABIT: 60-75’ (100’)
• HARDINESS:  USDA Zone 4 to 8
• OPTIMUM GROWING CONDITIONS:  Grows well in moist soils in rich woods.  Likes full sun.
• SUCCESSIONAL STATUS: Climax
• FACULTATIVE STATUS: None defined
• LANDSCAPE VALUE:  This tree is admired for its yellow flowers and large palmately compound leaves.
• FOLIAGE:   Large, palmately compound
• BUDS:  Large, not shiny, and opposite.  Nuts.
• BARK:  Gray-brown in larger plates less furrowed.
• FRUIT:  Pear shaped fruit and attractive yellow flowers born in May.
• PESTS:  None serious.