{"id":446,"date":"2010-11-08T14:59:30","date_gmt":"2010-11-08T19:59:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/?p=446"},"modified":"2010-11-11T20:28:56","modified_gmt":"2010-11-12T01:28:56","slug":"striped-maple-for-the-shade-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/2010\/11\/08\/striped-maple-for-the-shade-garden\/","title":{"rendered":"Striped Maple For The Shade Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/DSC_1000.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-448 alignleft\" title=\"Acer pensylvanicum\" src=\"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/DSC_1000-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"231\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/DSC_09971.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-452 alignnone\" title=\"DSC_0997\" src=\"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/DSC_09971-201x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"315\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This past weekend, while walking in the Smokies Mountains on a rather brisk rainy autumn\u00a0day, the bright yellow autumn foliage color of striped maple (<em>Acer pensylvanicum<\/em>)\u00a0caught my attention. Also called \u201cmoosewood\u201d, it is the only snake-bark maple native to the U.S. The greenish bark is marked with dark vertical lines or \u201cstripes\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The reason that we don&#8217;t see this wonderful small maple in our gardens is that it prefers a cool moist woodland environment and does not survive in hot urban habitats. Striped maple grows 15-20 feet in height as a small tree or a multi-stemmed shrub.\u00a0Leaves are 3-lobed with very small teeth along the leaf margin.<\/p>\n<p>It may be confused with Mountain maple (<em>A. spicatum<\/em>), also with a 3-lobed leaf, but with coarser teeth along the leaf margin. Both species may grow side by side\u00a0in the Southern Appalachian region (USDA zones 6 and 7). This is the southern growing range for striped maple.<\/p>\n<p>Long 4 &#8211; 6 inch raceme flowers open in May, yellowish green. Many double-winged seeds (botanists call them \u201csamaras\u201d, kids refer to them as \u201chelicopters\u201d)) may form along the raceme and are ripe by late September for dispersal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This past weekend, while walking in the Smokies Mountains on a rather brisk rainy autumn\u00a0day, the bright yellow autumn foliage color of striped maple (Acer pensylvanicum)\u00a0caught my attention. Also called \u201cmoosewood\u201d, it is the only snake-bark maple native to the U.S. The greenish bark is marked with dark vertical lines or \u201cstripes\u201d. The reason that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[627,630,632,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=446"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":464,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446\/revisions\/464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}