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Photographer: Michael Clayton
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Family Aceraceae
Acer nigrum F.Michx.
black maple
Acer: the classical Latin name for the maple
nigrum: Latin for "black"
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| Status: | Native |
| Plant: | perennial tree up to 150' tall; juice watery; bark dark, thick, mostly deeply furrowed plates |
| Fruit: | winged, paired fruit;  |
| Leaf: | opposite, undivided but 5, or more often, 3 shallow lobes; indentations (sinuses) between main lobes rounded; the edges and tips usually drooping; dark above and lighter below with fine hairs |
| Habitat: | moist, often along streams |
| Notes: | very similar to Acer saccharum (hard maple) except for coarser bark and drooping leaf edges |
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