Plant Description Deciduous shrub spreading by root sprouts; leaves opposite, palmately divided with 5 leaflets; flowers white in a long, terminal cluster, each with the stamens longer than the 4 petals; fruit a smooth, leathery capsule with 1-3 large, shiny, brown seeds each with a pale scar (the "buck's eye").

Aesculus parviflora, Bottlebrush buckeye

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