Rocky Mountain Maple is a small, multi-stemmed shrub or tree of mountain stream corridors and forest edges in the western United States. Its seeds are eaten by Steller's jays, pine grosbeaks, and squirrels. Deer and elk browse the foliage, and the species provides important riparian cover in mountain stream zones.
Habitat
Mountain stream banks and forest edges, 4,000–9,000 ft in the western US
Diet
Seeds eaten by Steller's jays and squirrels; foliage browsed by deer and elk
How common
Common
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