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The boxelder
is classed with the maples, but is easily identified by its
pinnately compound leaves. Hardy and fast-growing along Pittsburgh’s
three rivers, it is short-lived and often broken by storms.
Plains Indians were known to make sugar from its sap. It is
named because the foliage resembles an elder tree.
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| Height: 30’-60’ with
a broad rounded crown. |
| Leaves: 6” long,
pinnately compound with 3-7 leaflets 2”-4” long,
1”-1-1/2” wide, paired and short stalked. Light green
turning yellowish in fall. |
| Habitat: In
wet or moist soils along stream banks and in valleys with various
hardwoods from southern Ontario and New York, south
to Florida, and west to Texas. |
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