Boxelder
Acer negundo · Sapindaceae · 네군도단풍
How to spot it
Among maples, notable for opposite pinnately compound leaves, usually with 3-5 leaflets.
Look
- Leaves
- Opposite pinnately compound leaves, usually with 3-5 leaflets, sometimes 7.
- Flowers
- Flowers open before the leaves; male and female flowers hang in drooping clusters on hairy stalks. The anthers of male flowers are often red.
- Fruit
- Paired samaras in clusters, ripening from green-yellow to brown and sometimes persisting into winter.
- Bark
- Bark develops interlacing rounded ridges.
Where it grows
- In Korea
- Planted
- Native to
- North and Central America.
- Ecology
- Grows in wet places along water, floodplains and woods; the seeds feed birds and small mammals.