Vine maple leaf

Vine maple - Acer circinatum

Characteristics...

• Shape: palmate (5 lobes)
• Margin:serrate
• Venation: palmate
• Size: 8-15 cm
• Petiole: 5-10 cm
• Color: green
• Autumn color: yellow, orange - red. 

Vine maple blog post

Sugar maple leaf

Sugar maple - tree species: Acer saccharum

Characteristics...

• Shape: palmate (3 upper lobes are pronounced, 2 basal lobes are small)
• Margin: 1-3 points per lobe
• Venation: palmate
• Size: 8 - 16 cm (width and length relatively equal)
• Petiole: 5-13 cm
• Color: green 
• Fall color: yellow to bright orange
• Deciduous

The Sugar maple is the state tree of New York, Vermont, West Virginia and Wisconsin.

Silver maple leaf

Tree species: Acer Saccharinum  -  Silver maple

Acer saccharinum laciniatum-leaves

Characteristics...

• Shape: palmate (5 lobes)
• Margin: serrate
• Venation: palmate
• Size: 8 - 16 cm
• Petiole: 5-13 cm
• Color: green

Alternate common names..

• creek maple 
• river maple 
• silverleaf maple 
• soft maple 
• water maple 
• white maple

Bigleaf maple leaf

Bigleaf maple (Oregon maple) - Acer macrophyllum

Characteristics...

• Arrangement: opposite 
• Shape: palmate (5 deeply incised lobes)
• Margin: spiny / poiny
• Venation: palmate
• Size: 20 - 35 cm  (largest leaves of all the maple tree species)
• Petiole: 20 - 50 cm
• Color: green
• Autumn color: yellow - orange  

Big leaf maple blog post