Outstanding Features:
Brilliant red and orange fall color.

Description:
Height: 15-18'
Width: 15-18'
Hardiness Zone: 3a

Amur Maple is a multistemmed, fine to medium textured, rounded to irregular shaped small tree or large shrub. It can readily be trained into a small tree with either a single or multiple trunk. It can also be sheared into a hedge. The fragrant clusters of small, pale yellow flowers in spring are not particularly noticeable. The double samara fruit turns from green to brown in mid summer. The samaras of some individual plants develop a bright red coloration prior to turning brown. The dark green leaves are three lobed with a long, pointed central lobe. Leaves develop a vivid fall color ranging from yellow to deep red.

Requirements and Culture:
Requires a well drained soil. Will tolerate shade but develops a better fall color if grown in full sun. Tolerates poor soil fertility. Reasonably drought tolerant. Subject to iron chlorosis in alkaline soils.

Limitations:
Requires good drainage. Is a heavy seeder and can become weedy in cultivated gardens. No major insect or disease problems. Needs pruning to develop and maintain a good single trunked tree form. Susceptible to 2,4-D drift.

Selected Cultivars:

'Bailey Compact'- Compact shrubby form, growing only 8-12' high.

'Embers'- Has bright red samaras in mid July and a good red fall color.

'Flame'- A seed produced variety introduced from a selected seed source by the USDA Soil Conservation Service. 'Flame' has deep red fall foliage.

'Red Wing'- Red samaras, good red fall color.

Photo Credit: 1, 2, & 3 MLA.

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