Ohio buckeye, horse chestnut - Vinland Valley Nursery

Type:: native trees, trees — shade
Notable Traits:: attracts butterflies/pollinators, butterfly caterpillar food, low-maintenance, midwest native, resistant: deer, resistant: disease, resistant: rabbit, tolerates clay soil
Hardiness:: Zone 4 – 7
Mature Height:: 40-60ft
Light:: part sun/afternoon shade (eastern exposure), part sun/morning shade (western exposure), part to full shade (4 hours or less sun), part to full sun (4 hours or more sun), shade (northern exposure), sun (8+ hrs), sun or shade
Water:: drought tolerant
Bloom Color:: yellow
Butterfly Host:: Saddled Prominent Moth

Description

Growing in open spaces, these trees may reach 60’ tall by 30’ wide, but as a native understory it is often half that size. Since colonial times, Buckeyes have been carried as good luck charms.

NATIVE TO THE EASTERN HALF OF THE U.S.