North Carolina Wildflowers, Shrubs, & Trees

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Hippocastanaceae

Red Buckeye (Aesculus pavia) Red Buckeye (Aesculus pavia)
New Hanover Co., NC
8/27/2005

Found mostly in the coastal plain in NC, in moist woodlands and swamp edges.


Annotated habitat and distribution information listed above is from Radford, Ahles, & Bell. 1968. Manual of the Vascular Flora of the Carolinas. UNC Press; and from personal observations and discussions with Will Cook, Harry LeGrand, and Bob Wilbur. Common names from personal experience and supplemented by the following resources USDA plants website, Flora of the Carolinas, Virginia, and Georgia, and NatureServe.


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