Box Elder Flowers

The Box Elder is unfairly considered by som to be the black sheep of the maple family. Box elders are a hearty native tree that will grow just about anywhere. While they may not a conventional beauty they have a certain charm.

They are dioecious having separate male and female trees, and each puts on quite a show in springtime. The male flowers grow at the end of long drooping stalks, the female flowers in in slender, pendulous clusters.