Spring Highlights

• Tiny bright yellow flowers of northern spicebush
• “Helicopter” seeds of silver maple
• Animals feeding on silver maple seeds
• New leaves unfurling
• Maroon flowers of pawpaw

Summer Highlights

• Shimmering silver maple leaves, dark green above and silvery underneath
• Yellow blooms of tall wingstem
• White blooms of white snakeroot

Autumn Highlights

• Ripening pawpaw fruits, enjoyed by raccoons, squirrels, and people
• Red berries of northern spicebush

Winter Highlights

• Interesting tree architecture and bark patterns—for example, the mosaic-like pattern of sycamore bark near the ground, which becomes bone-white nearer the top of the tree