Acer campestre
Hedge Maple
Aceraceae

Located along driveway near Agricultural Biotechnology Laboratory and cow fields.

  • leaves opposite, small, dark green, with 3-5 lobes
  • leaves usually have 3 primary lobes, with rounded edges
  • buds imbricate, brown-black, small, pubescent
  • stems light brown, with lenticels/fissures
  • flowers green, in corymbs, in May
  • fruit a schizocarp, with the samaras forming a 180° angle
  • bark gray-black, with fissures/furrows
  • habit is a rounded, dense medium tree


View Acer campestre page in the UConn Plant Database

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