About the Vine Maple
This distinctive plant is as highly valued as an urban ornamental as it is in native plantings. Mature plants usually develop multiple trunks with bright reddish green bark. It can be grown alone as a specimen, in groupings, or as an understory shrub. Vine Maple has attractive fall color; reddish to orange for plants growing in the sun or bright yellow for plants growing in the shade. Does best in partial shade with moist, well drained soils. It is called “vine” because branches can lay down in very shady understories.
