Red maples produce dense clusters of red to reddish-yellow flowers in March before the foliage, but after silver maples. The effect is interesting, giving everything a reddish cast. Flowers of this species can be are polygamo-dioecious and thus can be primarily pistillate or staminate. Female flowers tend to be redder than the males. The flower petals of this species distinguish it from the apetalous flowers of silver maples.
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