I think squirrels put seeds for these in my flower pots what are they?
I’ve been seeing squirrels coming and going from my flower pots and it’s taken me until this point to realize these plants are not the ones that I had planted with them what are they haha
Silver maple whirlygigs fly a long way with the gusty winds of late April and early May. They’re perfectly capable of climbing into your pots themselves
Moss-cle
I’m pulling red maples out of nearly every pot this time of year
Lake_Erie69
Silver maple
Flowerpuffhua
i saw red maple on here, but I had a hard maple and a soft maple growing up, and this seems like it could be the soft maple saplings, they are big and fly quite far and the tree grows fast.
Amazing-Insect442
Maple
DougJustOrdinaryDoug
and that’s what squirrels do…
Herps_Plants_1987
Leaves favor A. Saccharinum
Pinku_Dva
Maple and they probably spread by wind. Do you have any maple trees around?
Yunzer2000
I’ve seen squirrels eating maple seeds. They might bury them.
HuesOfIndigo
Red maple. Their seeds spread prolifically via wind (i called them helicopter seeds as a kid). Lovely trees but for a North American native they sure can get kind of weedy.
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Looks like a maple seedling.
Looks like red maple
[probably the wind](https://youtu.be/DdVx663WXkA?si=ck1p03nBV50E8N1S) rather than a squirrel
look like little maple trees.
L’il baby maples
Silver maple whirlygigs fly a long way with the gusty winds of late April and early May. They’re perfectly capable of climbing into your pots themselves
I’m pulling red maples out of nearly every pot this time of year
Silver maple
i saw red maple on here, but I had a hard maple and a soft maple growing up, and this seems like it could be the soft maple saplings, they are big and fly quite far and the tree grows fast.
Maple
and that’s what squirrels do…
Leaves favor A. Saccharinum
Maple and they probably spread by wind. Do you have any maple trees around?
I’ve seen squirrels eating maple seeds. They might bury them.
Red maple. Their seeds spread prolifically via wind (i called them helicopter seeds as a kid). Lovely trees but for a North American native they sure can get kind of weedy.