Short, rounded tree with dark green palmate foliage. Has upright cone-shaped clusters of creamy yellow blooms in late spring. Leaves turn an outstanding shade of orange-red in fall. Produces large brown fruit capsules in the fall.

Green Mountain Sugar Maple has green foliage throughout the season. The lobed leaves turn outstanding shades of gold, orange and scarlet in the fall. Neither the flowers nor the fruit are ornamentally significant.

Slender Silhouette Sweetgum is primarily valued in the landscape for its rigidly columnar form. It has forest green deciduous foliage. The lobed palmate leaves turn an outstanding orange in the fall.