Flower: Appear March to May, usually before leaves; usually bright red but
occasionally yellow.

Fruit: Clusters of 1/2 to 3/4 inch long fruit with slighly divergent wings,
appear May to June, on long slender stems. Light brown and often reddish.

Twig: Reddish and lustrous with small lenticels, buds usually blunt, green
or reddish (fall and winter) with several scales usually present, leaf scars
V-shaped, 3 bundle scars, lateral buds slightly stalked, may be collateral buds
present.

Bark: On young trees, smooth and light gray, with age becomes darker and breaks
up into long scaly plates.

Form: Medium-sized tree. In forest, trunk usually clear for some distance,
in the open the trunk is shorter and the crown rounded.