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 9/18/07
The Red Maples of Stony Run
Anne Arundel
County, MD
Mark Burchick
THE RED MAPLES of STONEY RUN
I collected a trinomial (third name) variant
of a red maple today in an Anne Arundel
County swamp.
In the photo below
and attached, I collected both a common
Red Maple
Acer rubrum (FAC) and a subspecies
known as Acer rubrum trilobum
(FACW+) Trident
Red Maple
(like the three pronged spear)
or
Three-Lobed Red Maple,
in a swamp near BWI airport, in Anne Arundel
County. The A. rubrum trilobum
has smaller leaves than the common
Red Maple
and are distinctively 3-lobed and more
rounded at the base of the leaf.
The
Trident Red Maple
is an 'obligated' wetland species found in
nearly persistent wet wetlands, such as
swamps. Uncommon, and habitat
specific, this tree can be found throughout
the eastern United States but is oriented
more so to southern Virginia and North
Carolina. I've only seen this
subspecies on a handful of occasions.
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I've also attached a PDF article about
the Trident Red Maple from the USDA.
Summer_2007/IdentificationOfPlantSpeciesTrinomials5_%2024_2007(2).pdf
Submitted by Mark Burchick
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