Striped Maple

Also known as Moosewood, Whistlewood, Goosefoot Maple, Moose Maple

Striped maple thrives in the deep shade of northern hardwood forests, unfurling broad, three-lobed leaves designed to capture scarce filtered sunlight beneath a dense canopy. Its distinctive smooth bark features vivid vertical white fissures over green wood, providing striking year-round camouflage and giving the tree its snakebark title. Trees routinely switch their sexual expression between male and female states across different growing seasons in response to canopy light levels and physical stress.