People don’t tend to pay much attention to red maple flowers. But they play a vital role in New Jersey's natural habitats ...

The red maple is the first native tree to blossom on Staten Island. From a distance, it's easy to spot the bright red of the female flowers (at top of photo) and orange-red appearance of the male ...

Native red maple trees burst into flower in April, gloriously announcing the arrival of spring with their fluffy red blossoms high in the treetops. Red maple, sometimes called swamp maple, is the most ...

I’ve been watching red maple flowers every spring for a few years now and photographing them. The pictures help because I am poor at keeping a journal. I realized I had never learned about how such an ...

Throughout October, one life form in these parts satisfies more than all others. It is the red maple — your red maple, my red maple, the one down the road. It is the red maple of lowland swamps and ...

Red maple trees, like this one in Calais, Vt., can be beautiful even before autumn foliage hits. Credit: AP file New Englanders have a right to brag about the fall foliage that graces our hillsides in ...