Flower Notes:
Yellow (Greenish-yellow clusters in spring; not ornamentally important)
Foliage Notes:
Green (Thick, handsome, lustrous dark green foliage in summer); Yellow (Attractive clean yellow foliage in October)
Stem Notes:
Lustrous brown, angled and glabrous
Fruit Notes:
Green (Horizontal samaras covered in silky hairs)
Soil Notes:
Prefers moist, well-drained, and slightly acid soil, although 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.