"[3] Plants of the World Online[9] includes the following accepted Infraspecifics: Note: "Sapindus saponaria var.

[3] This species has a very wide native range throughout the Americas, ranging from Kansas (with isolated populations known as far north as Montana, Colorado, and Missouri) east to Florida and the West Indies, and south to Paraguay.

[1] It often grows in clumps or thickets reaching about 20 ft. (6.1 m) in height in the western part of its range.

In the western part of its range it is most often found growing at the head of prairie ravines, the margins of woodlands, the edges of fields or on rocky hillsides.

The leaves of the soapberry are alternate, pinnately compound, thick and leathery but deciduous, 8 in.

(38 cm) in length, made up of 6 to 20 narrow lanceolate leaflets with smooth margins, long tapered tips, and uneven wedge-shaped bases which are 2 in.

The inflorescence are dense terminal panicles of small white flowers 6 in.

The fruit occur in large pyramidal clusters at the ends of branches.

drummondii ripen in October and often remain on the tree until spring, while those of var.

drummondii are gray-brown and hairy with short tan colored hairs while those of var.

drummondii has light gray, scaly with thin plate like bark and sometimes shallowly furrowed while var.