Bladdernut

Staphylea trifolia

Habitat:
   Light: shade -part sun
   Moisture: mesic -wet mesic

   Height: 8 -20 ft.
   Flowering Time: early spring

Notes: a clonal upright shrub or small tree with cleanly-cut, 3-parted leaves; fruits in fall are clusters of bronze papery bladders that rattle in the wind; branches with striped bark.

   Range in Michigan: SE,SW