Staphylea trifoliaIndiana Native
American Bladdernut

 Plant Type:
 Growth Forms:
 Hardiness:
 Deciduous / Evergreen:
 Flower Notes:
White (Greenish white, bell-shaped at 1/3" long borne on 1.5 to 2" panicles; April-May)
 Foliage Notes:
Green (Dark green); Yellow (Dull yellow fall foliage)
 Stem Notes:
Greenish to brown (moderate, rounded, glabrous)
 Fruit Notes:
Brown (Pale green while immature and light brown when mature.)
 Ultimate Height:
10-15 feet
 Ultimate Spread:
10-15 feet
 Bloom Times:
 Soil Water Requirements:
 Soil Notes:
Prefers moist, well-drained soils.
 Range:
Eastern North America
 Maintenance:
 Diagnostic Characteristics:
Leaves are opposite, compound pinnate, 3 leaflets, ovate to broadly ovate, 2 to 4" long, acuminate, sharply and unequally serrate, dark green above, pubescent beneath, sometimes glabrate at maturity, the middle leaflet long-stalked. Buds are solitary, ovoid, glabrous, terminal-usually lacking. Bark is light, greenish gray with linear white fissures, branchlets at first pale green with white lenticels, downy, later brownish purple, finally ashen gray, glabrous.

Additional Information

An upright, heavily branched, suckering shrub; sometimes wide-spreading, as a small tree. Used in naturalizing; best reserved for parks and other low maintenance areas; rather nice for foliage effect.

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