ILLINOIS PLANT INFORMATION NETWORK ILPIN INFORMATION ON Staphylea trifolia CLASS: DICOTYLEDENAE ORDER: SAPINDALES FAMILY: STAPHYLEACEAE SCIENTIFIC NAME: Staphylea trifolia AUTHORITY: L. COMMON NAMES: BLADDERNUT SYNONOMY: None PLANTS CODE: STTR NATURAL COMMUNITIES: FOREST UPLAND FOREST MESIC FLOODPLAIN FOREST MESIC THICKETS LISTED CHARACTERISTIC WETLAND BORDER OF LAKE CULTURAL DEVELOPED LAND RESTORATION FOREST SAF FOREST COVER TYPE: CENTRAL Upland oak Northern Red Oak Other Central Types listed River Birch - Sycamore NORTHERN Northern Hardwoods Sugar Maple-Basswood Beech - Sugar Maple NATURAL DIVISION: UNAVAILABLE COUNTIES: ADAMS ALEXANDER BOND BOONE BROWN BUREAU CALHOUN CARROLL CASS CHAMPAIGN CHRISTIAN CLARK CLAY CLINTON COLES COOK CRAWFORD CUMBERLAND DEKALB DEWITT DOUGLAS DUPAGE EDGAR EDWARDS EFFINGHAM FAYETTE FORD FRANKLIN FULTON GALLATIN GREENE GRUNDY HAMILTON HANCOCK HARDIN HENDERSON HENRY IROQUOIS JACKSON JASPER JEFFERSON JERSEY JO DAVIESS JOHNSON KANE KANKAKEE KENDALL KNOX LAKE LASALLE LAWRENCE LEE LIVINGSTON LOGAN MCDONOUGH MCHENRY MCLEAN MACON MACOUPIN MADISON MARION MARSHALL MASON MASSAC MENARD MERCER MONROE MONTGOMERY MORGAN MOULTRIE OGLE PEORIA PERRY PIATT PIKE POPE PULASKI PUTNAM RANDOLPH RICHLAND ROCK ISLAND ST. CLAIR SALINE SANGAMON SCHUYLER SCOTT SHELBY STARK STEPHENSON TAZEWELL UNION VERMILION WABASH WARREN WASHINGTON WAYNE WHITE WHITESIDE WILL WILLIAMSON WINNEBAGO WOODFORD GROWTH FORM: Dicot-woody TAXONOMIC CHARACTERISTICS: ROOTS: Primary LEAF ARRANGEMENT: Opposite LEAF TYPE: Compound (trifoliate) LEAF MARGIN: Serrate LEAF VENATION: Pinnate LEAF SHAPE: Oblong Ovate INFLORESCENCE: Panicle FLOWER MEROUS: 5 FLOWER STRUCTURE: Complete Regular FLOWER COLOR: White FLOWER PLACEMENT: Perigynous FRUIT: Capsule DISTINGUISHING CHARACTERISTIC COMMENTS: Greenish striped branches; leaves pointed; terminal one long-stalked; flowers drooping; capsule inflated. GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION: ORIGIN: Native POPULATION DYNAMICS: STATE STATUS: Not listed FEDERAL STATUS: Not listed COMMONNESS: Common ENDEMIC: NOT-ENDEMIC BIOLOGIC: HABIT: Shrub LIFE CYCLE: Perennial REPRODUCTION: Sexual Vegetative FLOWERING PERIOD: MONTH BEGINNING- 4 MONTH END- 5 TROPHIC STATUS: Autotrophic C02 FIXATION: C3 SEX: Perfect BIOLOGIC COMMENTS: Often found in dense colonies. ECODISTRIBUTION COMMENTS: Rocky slopes. ENVIRONMENTAL RELATIONSHIPS: GROWTH OF SPECIES IN VARIOUS CONDITIONS: GRAVEL No data entered SAND No data entered SANDY LOAM No data entered LOAM No data entered CLAY LOAM No data entered CLAY No data entered DENSE CLAY No data entered ORGANIC SOIL No data entered NEUTRAL pH No data entered ACIDIC SOIL No data entered EXTREMELY ACID No data entered SALINE SOIL No data entered SODIC SOIL No data entered SODIC-SALINE No data entered ROCKY OUTCROPS No data entered GENTLE SLOPES Good MODERATE SLOPE No data entered STEEP SLOPES No data entered PREFERRED ASPECT: North East HABITAT: Moist FUNCTIONAL RELATIONSHIPS: No data entered HUMAN RELATIONSHIP DATA: ALLERGENIC: No SHOWY FLOWERS: YES AMOUNT: Medium LANDSCAPING: YES AMOUNT: High HUMAN FACTOR COMMENTS: Makes a good ornamental. WILDLIFE AND LIVESTOCK INFORMATION: No data entered REVEGETATION PLANTINGS: ESTABLISHMENT REQUIREMENTS: Easy LONG-TERM REVEGETATION POTENTIAL: Good SEED AVAILABILITY: Fair PROPAGATION COMMENTS: Form- whips. 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Society of American Foresters (SAF), Washington, D.C., 148 pp. White, J., and M. H. Madany. 1978. Classification of natural communities in Illinois. Pages 309-405 in J. White, ed., Illinois natural areas inventory technical report. Vol. 1. Survey methods and results. Illinois Natural Areas Inventory, Urbana. Downton, W. J. S. 1975. The occurrence of C4 photosynthesis among plants. Photosynthetica 9(1): 96-105. END OF DATA FOR SPECIES Staphylea trifolia ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ILPIN was developed by Louis Iverson*, with data compiled by David Ketzner and Jeanne Karnes Illinois Natural History Survey, 607 E. Peabody Dr., Champaign, IL 61820 *currently employed by USDA Forest Service, 359 Main Rd., Delaware, OH 43015