Flower: Yellow to green, small, clustered, hanging from a long (1 to 3 inch)
stem, appearing with the leaves.

Fruit: Two-winged horseshoe-shaped samaras about 1 inch long, appearing in
clusters, brown when mature in Autumn.

Twig: Brown, slender and shiny with lighter lenticels, terminal buds brown
and very sharp pointed.

Bark: Variable, but generally grayish brown,on older trees may be furrowed,
with long, thick irregular curling outward ridges.

Form: Medium to tall tree (to 100 feet) with very dense elliptical crown.