Station 19
Botanical Name: Acer rubrum
Common Name: Red Maple
Major Deciduous Tree
Native Origin: Eastern North America
Height: 60’
Spread: 45’-60’
Form: Broadly Columnar to Rounded
Flowers: Small and Red
Fruit: Samara
Bark: Young Bark –Light Gray and Smooth
Mature Bark – Dark Gray and Rough
Comments: This is a common street tree and has both smaller and finer toothed leafs then most other maples. Red maples like moist soil and can be found on the edges of streams, lakes and wetlands. As the name implies the fall color is red-orange and quite marvelous in the autumn landscape. Although red maple trees can have inconsistency in fall color, some trees may be more orange in color than red.