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Leaves Granite Mtn - Tr 347
Sue Smith | Leaves Granite Mtn - Tr 347
Sue Smith | Flowers Watson Woods
Sue Smith | Fruit Ponderosa Park Area
Sue Smith | Twigs Forest Trails
Doug McMillan | Bark Granite Mtn - Tr 345
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Origin: Native
General Description: Deciduous. Broad, rounded dense crown. Grows rapidly as a cultivated large shade tree. Relatively short lived. In nature, more likely to be a multi-trunk shrub, 10 to 15 feet. Has widest range of all North American maples.
Identification notes: Broadleaf tree, rounded, often multi-stemmed; leaves opposite, compound with 3 to 5 toothed, ovate to elliptical leaflets, terminal leaflet long stalked; leaf surfaces hairy at first, bright green, lighter green below, yellow-brown in fall.
Height: 50 feet Width: 50 feet
Habitat Description: Riparian habitats and other wet wooded areas.
Plant Communities: Riparian
Elevation: 3200 - 8000 feet
Color: Yellowish-green Shape: Regular in elongated clusters
Tubular: N Flowering Period: Apr - May
Description: Female inflorescences are droopy, aggregates of cup-like, 3/16 inch long flowers that lack petals and stamens and have exserted stigmas. Male flowers are in flat-topped clusters and have long exserted stamens.
Leaf Color: Green Type: Compound Shape: Round or oval Margin: Toothed Attachment: Opposite Hairs: N
Description: Leaves are pinnately compound. Bright green above and light green, hairy beneath, thick, 6 inches long with 3 to 7 toothed leaflets to 4 inches long. Turns yellowish-brown in fall.
Color: Brown Type: Winged Description: 2-paired winged seed cases to 1-1/2 inches long, paired, clustered and V-shaped.
Bark Color: Gray to light brown Bark Texture (Mature): Rough Bark and Branch Description: Trunk may reach 2-1/2 feet in diameter.
Spines, thorns or prickles: N |
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