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Photographer: Derek Anderson
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Family Aceraceae
Acer spicatum Lam.
mountain maple
Acer: the classical Latin name for the maple
spicatum: spiked
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| Status: | Native |
| Plant: | perennial tree/shrub single or in clumps usually less than 20' tall; twigs mostly greenish and covered with fine hairs; bark greenish to dark but without white stripes |
| Flower: | bloom when or after leaves open; in an erect, long-stalked cluster (panicle) |
| Fruit: | matures in mid-summer or fall; wings almost at right angles  |
| Leaf: | opposite, undivided, softly hairy below, usually 3-lobed, indentations (sinuses) between main lobes sharp; edges coarsely toothed with 6-9 per inch |
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