Family:
Sapindaceae Juss.

Aesculus L.

This genus is accepted, and its native range is SE. Europe to Turkey, Afghanistan to Japan and Indo-China, SE. Canada to Central & E. U.S.A., Oregon to NW. Mexico.

Native to:

Afghanistan, Alabama, Albania, Arkansas, Assam, Bangladesh, Bulgaria, California, China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, East Himalaya, Florida, Georgia, Greece, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Japan, Kansas, Kentucky, Laos, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Mexico Northwest, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Myanmar, Nebraska, Nepal, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Ontario, Oregon, Pakistan, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Thailand, Tibet, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Vietnam, Virginia, West Himalaya, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Yugoslavia

Introduced into:

Austria, Belgium, British Columbia, Central European Rus, Connecticut, Czechoslovakia, France, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Ireland, Kazakhstan, Korea, Massachusetts, New Zealand South, Québec, Romania, Spain, Switzerland, Uzbekistan, Vermont, Washington

Aesculus L. appears in other Kew resources:

First published in Sp. Pl.: 344 (1753)

Accepted by

  • Govaerts, R. (1995). World Checklist of Seed Plants 1(1, 2): 1-483, 529. MIM, Deurne.

  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2022. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
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  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2022. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
    © Copyright 2017 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

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