Flowers:
Green (Spring; not ornamentally important)
Foliage:
Green (Dark-green-bluish leaves in summer); Red (Excellent red fall foliage)
Fruit:
Brown (Showy samaras that begin green in summer)
Soil:
Performs best in well-drained loam soils, but tolerates alkaline clay soils well as well.
Diagnostic Characteristics:
Leaves (3-6" long) opposite, trifoliate (each 2-2.5" long and half as wide), coarse-toothed. Middle leaflet short-stalked and lateral leaflets almost sessile. Buds (0.13-0.25" long) are sharply pointed. Stem develops exfoliation during second and third year, older bark very exfoliated and beautiful.
