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| Description | A very fast growing weedy tree. |
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| Plant Type | All Plants, Trees Deciduous |
| Hardiness Zone | 3-9 |
| Sunlight | full |
| Moisture | prefers moist, very adaptable |
| Soil & Site | prefers moist, very adaptable, found naturally growing along river banks, grows in poor soils |
| Flowers | dioecious (male and female plants), flowers bloom before leaves, pendulous clusters, female trees produce large amounts of samaras, they hang on to the tree into the fall |
| Fruit | samara |
| Leaves | bright green, opposite, pinnately compound with 3-5 leaflets, poor fall color, most of the trees in our area (southeastern Wisconsin) seem to have "dead leaf" brown color. |
| Dimensions | 30'-50' tall, can reach 70' |
| Maintenance | Can be very messy, constantly dropping twigs and produces lots of viable samaras that germinate everywhere |
| Propagation | seeds |
| Misc Facts | Cultivated in 1688 |
| Author's Notes | At my first house we had one very large Box elder tree that had a trunk diameter of around 30", with two very large main branches. It provides the yard with about a bazillion seedling each year. Although most of the years the Box Elder bugs that are associated with this plant were almost non-existent. A few years our house was crawling with these bugs. They are many better trees to use in the landscape than the Box Elder. |
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