Flower Notes:
Multi-Colored (Greenish-yellow to red without petals; not generally ornamentally important)
Foliage Notes:
Green (Green leaves that are silver underneath; summer); Yellow (Poor yellow-green fall foliage; not ornamentally important)
Stem Notes:
Multicolor (Lustrous red brown turning gray in second year of growth)
Fruit Notes:
Brown (Brown samaras; not ornamentally important)
Soil Notes:
Very adaptable to soil type, tolerating extremely poor soils
Diagnostic Characteristics:
Simple, opposite leaves are 3-6" long and wide having 5 lobes, with deep sinuses and double acuminate lobes. Leaves bright green above and silvery white beneath, pubescent when young. 3-5" petiole. Buds usually in clusters. Buds and stems are lustrous red to reddish-brown.
Indiana Native 
