Flowers:
Yellow (Greenish-yellow flowers in the spring)
Foliage:
Green (Dark green summer foliage); Yellow (Yellow to yellow-orange during fall months)
Fruit:
Brown (Samaras are green then brown at maturity)
Soil:
Prefers well-drained, moist, slightly acidic soils; but adapts to many types of soils including those that are slightly alkaline
Diagnostic Characteristics:
Leaves are a dark, lustrous green, opposite, simple, 3-6" in length and width, slightly coarse toothed, with 3 to 5 lobes that come to a fine point. Samaras are 1-1.75" in length and create a horse-shoe shape.
