Big Leaf Maple Size:3 Gallon Photo Credit July Meadow: Tracy

Photo Credit July Meadow: Tracy Cozine

with its lightly-fragrant

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overall plant attracts and supports beneficial and pest eating insects and is a caterpillar host plant and larval food source for gray hairstreak and swallowtail butterflies and more than a dozen moth species

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Big Leaf Maple Size:3 Gallon Photo Credit July Meadow: TracyAcer macrophyllum With huge leaves as big as your head, the Bigleaf Maple brings many delights! In spring, edible six inch long clusters of small yellow flowers dangle from its twigs. The flowers transform into chains of large, fuzzy, doublewinged samaras by summer, when the impressive leaves and towering height provide essential shade. In humid areas, the mature bark supports epiphytic moss, lichens, and fern species, while its sturdy branches and