Acer saccharum Aceraceae Leaves are simple, opposite, deciduous, and 3-5 lobed with round sinuses, very pointed lobes and smooth margins.
Leaves turn red in the fall.
Buds are pointed and brown. Bark is brown-gray and smooth becoming furrowed, scaly, and plated on older trees. Fruit is a reddish-brown double samara. Sugar maple grows on moist, well-drained soils in the eastern and central U.S., and is found in the southern Appalachians in the southeast. Very tolerant of shade.