Swamp maple grows in wet places, while cedar, juniper, and poplar fill in abandoned fields and pastures.
Red maple, also called swamp maple, or scarlet maple, (Acer rubrum), large, irregularly narrow tree of the soapberry family (Sapindaceae), cultivated for its shade and spectacular autumn colour.
All around them is largely an expanse of grass and stone, interrupted occasionally by a red oak, swamp maple or chokecherry tree.
But it is hung next to a lithograph, "Swamp Maple II" (1970), which also reveals Mr. Katz's debt to Japanese woodblock prints, with their flat color and compositions, like this one, in which a single tree bisects the picture.
The other, soft or swamp maple, (acer rubrum) turns brilliant red in fall and yields sap that is half as sweet and requires much more to yield a gallon of syrup, according to Mr. Broderick.
The bounty includes the world's largest tern colony, ospreys with wingspans up to six feet, turkeys, seals, deer, the state's healthiest eastern mud turtle population, tiny voles, one of the biggest stands of white oak in the northeast, swamp maple and beach plums, to name but a few.
Cornflowers bloom, and leaves of swamp maples flare the first reds of autumn.
Buds fatten on the poplars, they are beginning to redden on the swamp maples, preparing to open cautious catkins on the willows.
There, it was temporarily tied to a stand of swamp maples, to be freed after officials lowered the water level in the storm-swollen pond.
A northwest gale was rattling the "bare, ruined choirs" of the swamp maples along the brook's west shore on a dark afternoon when Jeff and I last went waterfowling.
The two-lane road, lush with swamp maples, oak trees and untamed shrubs, first forced drivers to slow to country pace, then opened up to a vista of old-time American enterprise.
