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For example, a seed-grown red maple (Acer rubrum) is a native plant that will not have dependable red fall foliage but will often be a dull yellow.
Nature hit snooze button on foliage, just now starting to pop Joel M. Lerner 2010
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Choices could be alternating hophornbeams (Ostrya virginiana) and red maples (Acer rubrum).
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While many varieties of ornamental grass are grown here, including the annual Red Feather grass shown above in the glory of its decay, Pennisetum rubrum, the very special grass of September is the muhly grass.
Picture This-September-Portraits Of Muhly « Fairegarden 2009
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Like the pennisetum rubrum that is an annual here, worth it!
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The large reddish grass is Pennisetum rubrum ‘Fireworks’, three plants of it.
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For example, sycamore (Platanus occidentalis L.), green ash (Fraxinus pennsylvanica L.), and red maple (Acer rubrum L.) are more tolerant of sites that are compacted, poorly drained, or have minesoils primarily derived from siltstones or shales.
Offsetting carbon dioxide emissions through minesoil reclamation 2009
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Red maple (Acer rubrum) and black tupelo (Nyssa sylvatica) are less abundant on soils derived from Triassic sediments than on the low calcium, low magnesium, and more acidic soils found elsewhere in the Piedmont over metamorphic rocks (Farrell and Ware, 1991).
Ecoregions of Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia (EPA) 2008
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Swamp forests contain species such as red maple (Acer rubrum), white pine (Pinus strobus), and larch (Larix laricina).
Ecoregions of Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia (EPA) 2008
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Mineral soils in contrast have lower densities of red maple (Acer rubrum) and black gum (Nyssa sylvatica) and greater species richness (Levy and Walker, 1979).
Ecoregions of Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia (EPA) 2008
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Today, red maple (Acer rubrum) and black gum (Nyssa sylvatica) are by far the most common trees on organic soils.
Ecoregions of Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia (EPA) 2008
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