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Now, just past the middle of March, most red maples are in full blopm. Roadsides and hflls look as if a giant has dipped his paint brush into a vat of watered blood and flung it across the trees. Some maples, just coming into bloom, have a pale-pink look. Others are ruby-red from thousands of tiny new flowers.
Some trees have a rusty look; those have passed their first flowering. Later, maples will again be brilliant red at their twig-tips as the samaras, their seeds, develop and hang in ruby clusters.
The botanical language of maple blooms intrigues me. I have been checking the terminology of plants in my “plant” bible, The Flora of West Virginia. This book describes all Virginia plants except those that occur along the
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