Index / Search / Aesculus hippocastanum
§1 Plant
Aesculus hippocastanum L.
vernacular horse chestnut — species · Hippocastanaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Tree
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Hippocastanaceae A. Rich.
- Genus
- Aesculus
Native status, by region
- CAN Canada Introduced
- L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
County-level range
· 93 counties across 16 states/territories§3Cultivation
No cultivation specs.
USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 93 counties across 16 states/territories.
Illinois view state ↗ 8 I ▾
Indiana view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Iowa view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Maine view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 7 I ▾
Michigan view state ↗ 8 I ▾
Missouri view state ↗ 1 I ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 11 I ▾
New York view state ↗ 19 I ▾
Ohio view state ↗ 6 I ▾
Oregon view state ↗ 3 I ▾
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 18 I ▾
Rhode Island view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Washington view state ↗ 3 I ▾
West Virginia view state ↗ 4 I ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/AEHI ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/3189815 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
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