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  Guide to the Common Trees of Pennsylvania

Trees | Glossary | Visual Guide | Leaf Parts, Types, & Position

Box Elder
(Wide & Flat: Opposite Arrangement)
A medium sized tree, occasionally to 70' high. Trunk usually short, dividing into stout branches forming a deep broad crown. Typically found in low moist areas, floodplains and stream banks. Most abundant in eastern and southern Pennsylvania, common along streams in the southwestern part and scattered elsewhere. Used in ornamental plantings.

Box Elder
Acer negundo L.
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Leaves
Opposite, compound, with 3-5 coarsely and irregularly toothed leaflets, each 2"-4" long and 2"-3" wide.
Twigs
Stout, purplish-green or green, sometimes smooth but often with a whitish coating and scattered raised lenticels.
Fruit
Wings about 1½"-2" long, parallel or in-curved, borne in drooping clusters. Fruits mature in September but fruit-stalks persist far into winter.
Bark
Branches and young trunks smooth and grayish-brown, older trunks distinctly narrow ridged and seldom scaly.

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Needle-Shaped or Linear

  

Wide & Flat: Opposite Arrangement

Wide and Flat: Alternate Arrangement

Information courtesy of:
PA Department of Conservation & Natural Resources
 
 

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