Wide-spreading, rounded crown with numerous horizontal branches. Loose shaggy, scaly, gray to whitish bark. Alternately arranged, deeply divided, lobed leaves with upper surface dark green and the lower surface a whitish color, turn red in the fall.

Large tree with straight trunk and rounded crown; ashy gray to brown bark with interlacing corky ridges in diamond pattern; opposite, compound, deciduous leaves with five to nine, mostly seven, leaflets.