Fall Colors

What do you think of when someone brings up those beautiful fall colors?  Well, if you’re from Wisconsin more than likely you would think of the Sugar Maple.  When you’re out for a drive this coming fall, you’ll notice a sea of fabulous bright colors of red, orange, and yellow.  You can just about bet that the greater share of these trees are Sugar Maples.  Sugar Maples are also referred to as hard maples.  They are used in making furniture, and of course, their sap is used for syrup. 

Sugar Maples are excellent shade trees, and come in many different varieties.  Other maples with good fall colors include Rubrum or Red Maples.  These green leafed varieties are usually a brilliant red in fall.  Norway maple varieties have a yellow fall color.  Amur Maple is a smaller growing tree, which turns scarlet in the fall.

Maples are not the only trees that put on a beautiful fall display.  Ash trees can also be very colorful.  Most Green Ash varieties are yellow; other varieties include Autumn Purple, which is mahogany purple.  Northern Blaze also is purple, and Cimmaron turns to a brick red color.

Most birch and poplar varieties tend to be yellow in the fall.  Oaks are predominately brownish yellow, except for pin and scarlet, which, are a bright red. 

Locusts. Lindens and Willows will be yellow.  A few other varieties worth mentioning include Amelanchier or Serviceberry.  These trees are a brilliant red-orange.  Autumn Blaze Pear which, is an ornamental pear turns to crimson red.  Mountain Ash varieties can be reddish orange.