Aesculus glabra var. arguta       (syn. Aesculus arguta)             Hippocastanaceae

Texas Buckeye, White Buckeye                ES-ku-lus GLAH-bra ar-GU-ta

• Broadleaf deciduous shrub/tree, 6-20 ft (2-6 m) tall, dense, drooping branches.  Leaves opposite, palmately compound, 7-9(11) lanceolate leaflets, each to 12 cm long and 2.5-4.5 cm wide, tapering tip, wedge-shaped base, sharply and doubly serrate, medium green, glabrous at maturity; petioles as long as leaflets.  Flowers cream to yellow-green, 2.5 cm, in erect, terminal clusters, bloom in spring.  Fruit light brown, 2.5 cm long, rounded, with a prickly or warty covering, 1-3 brown seeds, 2.5 cm diameter.
• Sun to light shade.  Best on well-drained, slightly acid soil, tolerates some drought.  All parts of the plant considered poisonous.
• Hardy to USDA Zone 5   Native range from southeastern Nebraska, eastern Kansas, western Missouri, Oklahoma and Texas.
• glabra: smooth, a reference to the leaves.   arguta: sharp-toothed, a reference to the marign of the leaflets.