Habitat and Range
Red buckeye grows in mesic woodlands, bottomlands, streambanks, hammocks, and parts of floodplains that are rarely and briefly flooded. It is commonly found in the understory of beech-magnolia forests, or on bluffs along wooded streams.
It grows on the Atlantic coastal plain from southeastern North Carolina to central Florida; west to central Texas; north to southeastern Missouri, southern Illinois, and northwestern Georgia.