Bark of the silver maple. Alberto Salguero/Wikimedia Commons/CC BY-SA 3.0 "Silver Maple will grow in areas which have standing water for several weeks at a time.

Norway maples typically have 5-7 lobes (commonly 7), sugar maples typically have 5, and black maples typically have 3-5. Black maple’s bottom two lobes are so much less prominent than sugar maple that ...