Add brilliant winter color and year-round interest to your landscape with Acer negundo 'Winter Lightning', shipped in a 4-inch pot and ready to plant. This outstanding maple cultivar is prized for its striking bright yellow bark, which illuminates the garden during the dormant season when color is often scarce. Featuring a broad, upright growth habit and vigorous growth rate, 'Winter Lightning' can reach approximately 10 feet tall in ten years, making it an excellent choice for specimen plantings, mixed borders, and landscape focal points. Its vibrant stems and attractive foliage provide beauty throughout the seasons while adding unique texture and color to the garden.

You will receive:
✔️ 1 live Winter Lightning Maple plant
✔️ Shipped in 4-inch pot
✔️ Healthy, rooted plant
✔️ Fast-growing ornamental tree
✔️ Secure packaging for safe arrival

Growing Information
Common Name: Winter Lightning Maple
Botanical Name: Acer negundo 'Winter Lightning'
Plant Type: Deciduous ornamental tree
Growth Stage: Young plant
Sun Requirements: Full sun to partial shade
Soil: Well-draining soil; adaptable to a variety of soil types
Watering: Moderate; water regularly during establishment
Mature Height: 10 feet
Growth Rate: Fast
USDA Zones: 5–8
Container Friendly: Yes, when young

Care Tip: Plant in a location where the vibrant yellow bark can be appreciated during winter months. Occasional pruning can help maintain a strong structure and encourage fresh, colorful stem growth.

Plant Condition Disclosure

Live plants may be shipped dormant, leafless, recently pruned, bare root, or partially defoliated depending on season, weather, and shipping requirements.

Natural variation in size, branching, foliage density, color, root structure, and overall appearance should be expected.

Important Note

You will receive a live starter plant (seedling/young plant). Listing photos show the plant at a mature stage for reference only. The actual plant size, shape, and appearance may vary and will be significantly smaller than the images shown.

Customer Notice for Live Plants

Live plants may experience normal shipping stress such as leaf loss, yellowing, wilting, or minor branch damage.

Please consider local weather before purchasing. Extreme heat, freezing temperatures, severe weather, shipping delays, or unattended packages may increase plant stress.

Due to the perishable nature of live plants, returns are generally not accepted. If there is an issue with your order, please contact us within 48 hours of delivery and provide the required photos for review.

• Photos of the shipping box
• Photo of the shipping label
• Clear photos of the plant from multiple angles
• Scratch test photos if the plant appears dead or dormant

Dormant, stressed, defoliated, wilted, or transit-shocked plants are not automatically considered dead.

Claims submitted without the required photos or more than 48 hours after delivery may not be eligible for review, replacement, or refund.