Flower Notes:
Yellow (Greenish-yellow in spring; not ornamentally important)
Foliage Notes:
Green (Handsome dark green leaves in summer); Yellow (Pale yellow in fall)
Stem Notes:
Lustrous brown, angled and glabrous
Fruit Notes:
Green (Horizontally spreading samaras with silky hairs)
Soil Notes:
Prefers well-drained acid soils, but apparently adaptable
Diagnostic Characteristics:
Leaves opposite, simple, 2-3" long and wide, usually 3 main broad entire lobes with accuminately rounded tips. Petioles and leaf undersides are pubescent.