In North America, the maple species are divided into two groups: soft maple (which includes red maple, Acer rubrum, silver maple, A. saccharinum, and bigleaf maple, A. macrophyllum) and hard maple ...
Watching for signs of spring in the Lowcountry? Look for bright red patches in the landscape, along roadsides and in woods and swamps. Those splashes of color are red maple trees (Acer rubrum), whose ...