Ohio Buckeye
Aesculus glabra
68
Strong
Native to Mississippi. How scores work Is it native here?
Profile 76%
- Height
- 20–40 feet
- Spread
- 20–40 feet
- Light
- Full sun, Partial shade
- Soil moisture
- Average to moist
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Rare or protected plant. Specialist conservation planting; excluded from routine garden suggestions. Plant caution source
Hidden from default planting suggestions. Wildlife value and native status remain unchanged.
At a glance
- Life cycle
- Woody perennial
- Leaves
- Deciduous
- Bloom
- Mid spring
Recorded in 8 Mississippi counties.
Also found with this plant
Wildlife whose habitat models include habitats this plant grows in, in Mississippi. Shared habitat, not food. 43 animals.
Widespread birds also seen here (38)
Found in many habitats here, so not listed above.
- American Crow
- American Goldfinch
- American Kestrel
- American Robin
- Bald Eagle
- Belted Kingfisher
- Blue Grosbeak
- Carolina Chickadee
- Carolina Wren
- Cedar Waxwing
- Chimney Swift
- Chipping Sparrow
- Common Grackle
- Common Nighthawk
- Common Yellowthroat
- Cooper's Hawk
- Double-crested Cormorant
- Eastern Kingbird
- Eastern Screech-owl
- Eastern Towhee
- European Starling
- Great Crested Flycatcher
- Great Horned Owl
- Hooded Merganser
- Mourning Dove
- Northern Cardinal
- Northern Flicker
- Northern Mockingbird
- Osprey
- Purple Finch
- Red-tailed Hawk
- Red-winged Blackbird
- Sharp-shinned Hawk
- Tufted Titmouse
- Turkey Vulture
- White-throated Sparrow
- Yellow-breasted Chat
- Yellow-rumped Warbler
Ecological relationships
Who uses this plant?
30CaterpillarsGenus host records with ranges including MS
Genus host records with ranges including MS · Aesculus
- Achatia distinctaDistinct Quaker
- Acronicta americanaAmerican Dagger
- Actias lunaLuna Moth
- Amyelois transitellaNavel Orangeworm
- Antheraea polyphemusPolyphemus Moth
- Archips argyrospilaFruit-Tree Leafroller Moth
- Archips rileyanaSouthern Ugly-Nest Caterpillar Moth
- Cecrita biundataWavy-Lined Heterocampa
- Cecrita guttivittaMaple Prominent, Saddled Prominent
- Choristoneura rosaceanaOblique-Banded Leafroller Moth, Rosaceous Leaf Roller
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- Eacles imperialisImperial Moth, Imperial Spiny Caterpillar
- Egira alternansAlternate Woodling
- Ennomos subsignariaElm Spanworm Moth
- Halysidota tessellarisBanded Tussock Moth, Pale Tiger Moth
- Hyalophora cecropiaCecropia Silkmoth, Cecropia Moth
- Hyphantria cuneaFall Webworm
- Isa textulaCrowned Slug
- Lithophane antennataAshen Pinion
- Morrisonia confusaConfused Woodgrain
- Nematocampa resistariaFilament Bearer, Horned Spanworm Moth
- Oiketicus abbotiiAbbot's Bagworm Moth
- Orgyia leucostigmaWhite-Marked Tussock Moth
- Orthosia hibisciSpeckled Green Fruitworm Moth, Speckled Green Quaker
- Proteoteras aesculanaMaple Seed Caterpillar, Maple Twig Borer
- Psaphida rolandiRoland's Sallow
- Pseudexentera spolianaBare-Patched Leafroller
- Thyridopteryx ephemeraeformisEvergreen Bagworm Moth
- Trigrammia quadrinotariaFour-Spotted Angle
- Zeiraphera claypoleanaBuckeye Petiole Borer
- Olethreutes monetiferanum
22BeesSoutheastern regional records
Southeastern regional records · Aesculus
Individual names are not available yet.
Noori, Seltmann & Orr 2026, A curated and integrated dataset for exploring global bee-plant interactions (GloBI), Zenodo, CC BY 4.0
0Specialist beesPollen specialists
—BirdsRecorded genus food-resource interactions; not a state feeding claimNo records yet · Ants · Beetles · Flies · Adult butterflies / moths · Other wasps · Other insects
Growing and identification
Plant details
- Family
- Sapindaceae
- Hardiness
- Zones 3a–7b
- Flower color
- Yellow or green
What its natural habitat tells you
Growing sources and scope
- Bloom · “Mid spring” · USDA PLANTS via EOL TraitBank · Nationwide approximate species characteristics; tolerance categories do not specify sun hours or moisture requirements
- Flower color · “Yellow or green” · NC Extension Plant Toolbox
- Hardiness · “Zones 3a–7b” · NC Extension Plant Toolbox
- Height · “20–40 feet” · NC Extension Plant Toolbox (ranked first; USDA PLANTS via EOL TraitBank, Minnesota Wildflowers differ)
- Leaves · “Deciduous” · NC Extension Plant Toolbox
- Life cycle · “Woody perennial” · NC Extension Plant Toolbox
- Light · “Full sun (6 or more hours of direct sunlight a day); Partial shade (direct sunlight only part of the day, 2-6 hours)” · NC Extension Plant Toolbox (ranked first; Tennessee Smart Yards differs)
- Soil · “moderately wet to medium” · Tennessee Smart Yards · Published Tennessee growing guidance; exact cached scientific heading
- Spread · “20–40 feet” · NC Extension Plant Toolbox
Conservation status
| Mississippi rank | S2 |
|---|---|
| Global rank | Not available |
| MS status | Not verified |
| Federal status | Not verified |
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Sources
- NatureServe Explorer
- Mississippi occurrence source
- Shropshire & Tallamy 2025, Lepidoptera of North America north of Mexico, ZooKeys 1261 (ODbL)
- Noori, Seltmann & Orr 2026, A curated and integrated dataset for exploring global bee-plant interactions (GloBI), Zenodo, CC BY 4.0
- Smith, Bachelder, Russell, Morales, Mosher & Seltmann 2024, Bee-Specialization-Modeling v0.6.1 (specialist host table compiled from J. Fowler's pollen specialist bee lists), Zenodo, CC BY 4.0
- Hurlbert, Olsen, Sawyer & Winner 2021, Avian Diet Database, Scientific Data 8: 260 (CC0)
- Narango, Tallamy & Shropshire 2020, Few keystone plant genera support the majority of Lepidoptera species, Nature Communications