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Plant - fall V-Bar-V Ranch
Max Licher @http://swbiodiversity.org, Usage Rights: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) | Leaves Red Rock State Park
Max Licher @http://swbiodiversity.org, Usage Rights: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) | Flowers Grasshopper Point, Oak Creek Canyon
Max Licher @http://swbiodiversity.org, Usage Rights: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) | Seedhead Red Rock State Park
Max Licher @http://swbiodiversity.org, Usage Rights: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) | Bark Wet Beaver Creek
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Origin: Native Similar Species: Platanus racemosa
General Description: Deciduous. Large, spreading, irregular shaped tree with whitish older branches and broad open crowns and stout, mottled trunks to 4 feet in diameter. Often branched near base.
Identification notes: Large spreading tree; older branches have white bark with a plated appearance, younger twigs rusty and hairy. Terminal leaf lobe 2/3 or more length of blade; leaf blades 4 to 10 inches long and of similar width. Clusters of round fruits.
Height: 80 feet Width: 60 feet
Habitat Description: Often abundant in riparian forests, especially in montane canyons, extending into deserts along streams and near springs.
Plant Communities: Riparian
Elevation: 2000 - 6000 feet
Color: Green Shape: Inconspicuous in round clusters
Tubular: N Flowering Period: Apr - May
Description: Green, flowers inconspicuous, emerging with the leaves. Male and female flowers in dense, round male or female only flower heads, either singly or in multiples along a stem.
Leaf Color: Light green Type: Simple Shape: Palmate Margin: Lobed Attachment: Alternate Hairs: Bottom of leaves
Description: Light green above, paler and hairy beneath. Palmately lobed, divided into 3, 5 or 7 narrow, long-pointed lobes. 6 to 9 inches long and wide. Slightly star-shaped. Usually without teeth.
Color: Light brown Type: Achene Description: 2 to 4 fuzzy balls, 3/4 to 1-1/2 inches in diameter, hanging on a long, slender stalk; composed of numerous tiny, tufted seeds; maturing in autumn. Balls disintegrate over winter, with the wind dispersing the seeds.
Bark Color: Whitish, brownish Bark Texture (Mature): Rough Bark and Branch Description: Young twigs are reddish, hairy. Mature bark whitish, smooth, thin, peeling in brownish flakes and mottled on trunk. Bark is rough, thick, deeply and irregularly furrowed at base, thick plates of bark hang loose on old trunks and large branches.
Spines, thorns or prickles: N |
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