Soon the leaves of red maple will turn every imaginable shade of yellow, pink, purple and crimson. The first trees to change from green to these bizarre hues will be those in hardwood swamps where red maple is the unchallenged ruler. Later, those on drier sites- sometimes on extremely dry sites- will change to the same startling array of colors.
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