Drummond's Red Maple is a tree of wet habitats, common in the Coastal Plain, uncommon to rare in the Piedmont of North Carolina.

Durham Co., NC 5/3/08.

It differs from the other varieties of Red Maple (rubrum and trilobum) in having longer samaras (3-5 cm vs. 1.5-3 cm) and leaves that are densely white felty-pubescent beneath.

Robeson Co., NC 5/29/08.

The leaves are white and very fuzzy beneath.

Robeson Co., NC 5/29/08.

Leaf underside detail.

Robeson Co., NC 5/29/08.

Wake Co., NC 5/30/2011.

This one is densely pubescent beneath, but the pubescence isn't quite white. It's possible this is var. trilobum or an intergrade.

Wake Co., NC 5/30/2011.

Sometimes treated as a full species, Acer drummondii Hooker & Arnott ex Nuttall. An alternate common name is Swamp Red Maple.

Scotland Co., NC 6/6/03.

Scotland Co., NC 6/6/03.

Bark of a medium-sized tree.

Scotland Co., NC 6/6/03.

Bark of a larger tree.

Durham Co., NC 5/3/08.