Acer pensylvanicum

Striped or moose maple is in the soapberry or Sapindaceae family and is native to North America, from the Atlantic provinces to southern Ontario in Canada, down to the Appalachian Mountains in Michigan,Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey and as far south as northern Georgia. It is a small deciduous tree growing to 5–10 meters. In some ways, it closely resembles Manchurian snakebark maple (Acer tegmentosum).

It is in the snakebark group of maples identified by: Snakeskin-like bark; buds on stocks, 1 pair of scales; flowers (and double samaras) on pendulous racemes.

• Leaves are opposite, simple, broad and soft, 8–15 cm long and 6–12 cm broad, with three shallow forward-pointing lobes.
• Flowers are yellow-green, bell-shaped, up to 0.5 cm long, inlong hanging clusters in spring.
• The fruit is a double samara; the seeds are about 27 mm long and 11 mm broad, with a wing angle of 145° and a conspicuously veined pedicel.