Red Maple

(Acer rubrum)

Family: Sapindaceae (formerly Aceraceae)

Phylum: Anthophyta

CSU TREE MAP ITEM #34

 

Distribution

Ranges from southeastern Manitoba around the Lake of the Woods on the border with Ontario and Minnesota, east to Newfoundland, south to Florida, and southwest to eastern Texas.

By U.S. Geological Survey - Digital representation of "Atlas of United States Trees" by Elbert L. Little, Jr. [1], Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=924329

Leaves

No machine-readable author provided. Noles1984~commonswiki assumed (based on copyright claims). [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

Flowering

Female Flowers

Male Flowers

Both by Famartin [CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)], from Wikimedia Commons

Fruit

By Sarah M Bruce, from Wikimedia Commons

Questions

Using the bark descriptors given in the handout, describe the type of bark this tree has.

Describe how the leaves of this tree are different from the stereotypic "maple" shape (e.g. picture the maple leaf on the Canadian Flag).