Ohio is home to some beautiful, rare and unique plants and animals. Here are some to learn about just in time for Earth Day 2025.

In the late summer and early fall, buckeye trees bear a fruit that contains a large nut – the buckeye. The fruit will eventually fall to the ground as greenish-gold leathery husks. "According to ...

The Ohio Buckeye is native to the Midwest and the Great Plains. And unlike the pawpaw fruit, the buckeye nut is NOT edible. A close-up of a buckeye tree with its pods.