Tatarian maple (Acer tataricum)

Description: Additional data is necessary to determine whether or not this species exhibits invasive characteristics in Michigan.

Habit: A small tree or multi-stemmed shrub, growing up to 25 feet tall with a nearly equal spread.

Leaves: Opposite, simple, serrate to double serste margin, usually unlobed or with 2-5 lobes, oval to deltoid in shape, 2-4 inches long, half as wide, green above and paler below.

Stems: Slender, angular, glabrous to slightly pubescent, reddish brown, lenticelate, with raised leaf scars and short, broad, dark reddish brown buds.

Flowers: Yellow-green and tinged with red, small, long-stalked, occurring in round-topped clusters, appear just after leaves.

Fruit and seeds: 0.75 - 1 inch long samara, hang at very tight angles or nearly parallel, green and red changing to brown. Ripen in early fall and persist.

Habitat: Native to southeastern Europe and Western Asia.

Reproduction: By seed or by softwood/semihardwood cuttings.

Similar species: Amur maple (Acer ginnala); Trident maple (Acer buergerianum)

Credits: The information provided in this factsheet was gathered from the Virginia Tech Dept. of Forest Resources and Environmental Conservation VTree.

Individual species images that appear with a number in a black box are courtesy of the Bugwood.org network (http://www.invasive.org).Individual photo author credits may not be included due to the small display size of the images and subsequent difficulty of reading the provided text. All other images appear courtesy of Google (http://images.google.com).

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