Aesculus californica
California buckeye · also California horse-chestnut, Californian buckeye
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The California Buckeye is a multi-trunked California native with a showy spring flowering display and distinctive white trunks in winter. Its foliage turns brown and drops in midsummer without irrigation, a natural drought adaptation. It is useful in low-water settings and serves as an attractive accent tree.
Where it grows
Trees in each city's inventory, with the share of that city's named trees this species accounts for.
- 1200.09%1.3 yr3.0 in
- 40.00%—4.5 in
- 40.00%—2.3 in
- 10.00%——
Traits
- Form
- Multi-trunk
- Foliage
- Deciduous
- Mature height
- 10–25 ft
- Canopy spread
- 20–30 ft
- Drought tolerance
- High
- Wildlife value
- Moderate
- Blooms
- Mar, Apr, May
Trunk diameters across every city: median 3.0 in, mean 5.3 in, 90th percentile 11 in. Measured at breast height, as published by each inventory.
Native range
Terrestrial ecoregions where this species is native. Trees in the dataset mostly stand well outside it.
Mediterranean Forests, Woodlands & Scrub
- California coastal sage and chaparral
- California interior chaparral and woodlands
- California montane chaparral and woodlands
Temperate Conifer Forests
- Northern California coastal forests
Temperate Grasslands, Savannas & Shrublands
- California Central Valley grasslands
Other Aesculus in the catalogue
15 of the top 2,000 species are in this genus.
