BLACK MAPLE; BLACK SUGAR MAPLE (Ater nigrum, Michx.). 50 to 80 feet. Distinguished from the preceding species, which it closely resembles, by the almost black bark of old trunks, and the orange color of the stout branchlet3. The foliage mass is dull, dark green. The leaves droop, they are yellowish green and downy beneath, with yellow veins, and pubescent petioles, much enlarged at base. The leaf
lobes are more pointed than the sugar maple's. The leaves are larger. When they open, they are densely velvety be neath. The winged seeds are widely divergent. Dist.: Da kota to Kansas; east to New England and Virginia.