Golden rain tree
InvasiveKoelreuteria paniculata
Soapberry (Sapindaceae) · Invasive · 25–40 ft
Knowing it
Yellow summer flowers and papery lantern pods; escaping from yards into bluffs and roadsides, mainly around St. Louis and the eastern Ozarks.
What a tree company sees
Weak forks; seedlings come up thick.
Recorded in 23 counties
- Andrew County
- Barry County
- Boone County
- Cape Girardeau County
- Clay County
- Cole County
- Franklin County
- Greene County
- Howell County
- Jackson County
- Jefferson County
- Johnson County
- Moniteau County
- Platte County
- Polk County
- Ray County
- Scott County
- St. Charles County
- St. Clair County
- St. Francois County
- St. Louis City
- St. Louis County
- Vernon County
From GBIF occurrence records. No record does not mean absent.