Bigtooth maple in flower

Description:

While Acer grandidentatum can in ideal environments grow as tall as 8 m or more from typically one or two trunks, in drier places it tends to have multiple stems and may be closer to tall shrub to small tree in size (plant pictured was in the 4 to 4.5 m height range). This is the tree that tends to turn a brilliant red in fall.April 26, 2013, Salt Lake County, Utah, Wasatch Front foothills, 5125 ft. elev.