Family:
Growth Form: Medium to large tree up to 100 feet tall; trunk diameter up to 5 feet; crown usually broadly rounded.
Stems: The bark is gray or silvery, smooth at first, becoming loose and scaly or even somewhat shaggy when old. The twigs are slender, reddish-brown, smooth, often curving upward; leaf scars opposite, U-shaped, with 3-7 bundle traces.
Leaves: Opposite, simple; blades up to 8 inches long, nearly as broad, deeply palmately 5-lobed, the edges of the leaves sharply toothed, pale green adn smooth on the upper surface, silvery-white and usually smooth on the lower surface, except in the leaf axils; leafstalks smooth, up to 5 inches long, often reddish.
Flower Arrangement:
Flowers: Staminate and pistillate borne separately, but sometimes on the same tree, in dense clusters, greenish-yellow, opening in February and March before the leaves begin to unfold.
Petals: The buds are more or less rounded, reddish-brown, smooth to finely hairy, up to 1/8 inch long.
Stamens: .
Pistil:
Fruits: Borne in pairs, composed of a curved wing with a seed at the base, green or yellow, up to 3 inches.
Habitat: Wet soil.
Range: New Brunswick across to Minnesota and South Dakota, south to Oklahoma, Texas, east to northern Florida.
N 38 degrees 34.755 minutes
W 89 degrees 04.146 minutes
Elevation 475 feet