American Bladdernut Scientific Name: Staphylea trifolia
Description: A slender shrub 6-12' or rarely a tree 25' high, with ascending, curved, light warm gray stems conspicuously green-striped, the newer twigs light olive green.
Habitat: In moist thickets.
Range: From western Quebec west to Ontario and Minnesota, and south to South Carolina, Missouri and Kansas.
Type: Shrub Source:Field Book of American Trees and Shrubs by F. Schuyler Mathews
Photograph: Troy Evans from www.forestryimages.org. |
