Flower Notes:
Yellow (Small, inconspicuous flowers in March)
Foliage Notes:
Green (Summer); Red (Brilliant red coloration in fall months)
Stem Notes:
glabrous, lenticelled, beginning as green and fading to a red and then brown
Fruit Notes:
small bundles that give way to red stamens
Soil Notes:
Prefers well-drained, moist, acidic soils; tolerates a range of pH soils
Diagnostic Characteristics:
Leaves opposite, simple, 2-4" long and wide, usually 3 lobed, but often 5. Petioles and stems often reddish. Flower buds imbricate and clustered around node. Scales pointed.
