Bigleaf Maple Flower Bud
This is how it all starts: tiny bright yellow-green flowers show before even the first hint of leaves in the massive bigleaf maples. As the spring progresses into summer, the seed pods begin to form, and as fall approaches, we see the first of the falling "whirlie-birds" we all know and love!
- Copyright
- ©2016
- Image Size
- 6000x4000 / 9.6MB
- Keywords
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A. macrophyllum, Acer, Acer macrophyllum, Aceraceae, Angiosperms, Deep Lake, Enumclaw, Eudicots, King County, Nolte State Park, Oregon maple, Plantae, Rosids, Sapindaceae, Sapindales, Washington, achene, bigleaf maple, deciduous, dicot, forest, fruit, helicopter, incised, lobe, maple, old growth forest, palmate, perennial, pod, samara, seed, seedpod, spring, state park, tree, west coast, western, whirly bird, whirlybird, winged
- Contained in galleries
- Yellow Wildflowers, Bigleaf Maple, Sapindaceae (Maples and Horse Chestnuts)
