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small maple which favors rocky upland woods
15 feet high, reddish brown leaves that turn bright crimson in fall.
Common throughout most of eastern North America. Caterpillar hostplants are ...
I found this maple tree in the side of the ...
These are the seed pods and a few of the leaves of a young Striped
Acer monspessulanum (Montpellier maple) is ...
Well-drained, moist soils along streams, in ravines and on moist hillsides in ...
Caterpillars feed on maple (Acer), birch ...
20-30mm, reniform spot consists of 2 round white spots
3/4" wingspan white moth with orange bands. Arctiidea?
Very small caps - about 1/8 to 1/4 inch diameter - on skinny, tall, black ...
Greenish bark with vertical white stripes. Samaras.
Lovely red samaras are emerging from the leathery red flowers of this
forewing grayish-brown, with whitish tint in female; tint often absent in ...
Flowers dioecious; yellow; no petals; small, inconspicuous; appearing in ...
. Some stands are also found inland in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada
Flower buds just beginning; leaves glossy & pointed like holly. Older leaves ...
Larvae feed on leaves of apple, cherry, hawthorn, hornbeam,
14 feet tall. leaves are 6 inches,opposite,and toothed. Bark is scaly and ...
One of several in the front woods of our land, damage from heavy rain or?
Scalloped - primarly green, with tan and brown. Running along a log. Similar to ...