Acer negundo
Location: Woods - scattered, mostly at edges
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Acer negundo is a small, usually fast-growing and fairly short-lived tree that grows up to 10-25 m tall, with a trunk diameter of 30-50 cm, rarely up to 1 m diameter. It often has several trunks and can form impenetrable thickets. The Boxelder Bug lays its eggs on all maples, but prefers this species (we have a colony of boxelder bugs that appears each spring). Link Distribution photo photo Genus: Acer (maples) Family: Sapindaceae (sapindaceae) Order: Sapindales (trees, including citrus, maples) Class: Magnoliopsida (Dicots) Phylum/Division: Magnoliophyta (Flowering plants) Kingdom: Plantae (Plants) |