Today we went to a park near our house and walked on the trails in the woods. We got there about 9:30am to beat the heat. There weren't many flowers, but lots of trees and neat looking leaves. I found one I really liked on the path. When we got home we looked it up and saw it was from a sycamore tree.
American sycamores grow over most of the eastern United States. They can grow to be 130ft tall. In 1770 George Washington recorded a sycamore while traveling along the Ohio River where it meets the Kanawha River in West Virginia that was 45 ft in circumference.
Below is a map showing where the American sycamore grows.
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