Welcome to the Texas Board of Nursing Website. We welcome you to the Texas Board of Nursing (BON or Board) website. The BON has been serving the public for more than 100 years since its establishment in 1909 by the Legislature to regulate the safe practice of nursing in Texas.e welcome you to the Texas Board of Nursing (BON or Board) website. The BON has been serving the public for more than 100 years since its establishment in 1909 by the Legislature to regulate the safe practice of nursing in Texas.
Sugar maple, Norway maple and silver maple all have extremely shallow roots, especially silver maples, which often have large, exposed roots well above the ground level. This makes it difficult to nearly impossible for grass or other plants to live underneath a silver maple tree.
They are also are main source of maple syrup. A sugar maple leaf has five lobes, few teeth between each lobe, u-shaped sinuses, and is smooth to the touch. A sugar maple's bark is a solid hue of dark gray brown. If the tree is young, look for bark that is gray and smooth.Light blue lichens splotches, like we see here, are also common. If the sugar maple is mature look for furrowed bark that runs in strips.f you spot these on a tree, you can be certain that the beauteous wonder before you is a maple tree. Let's take a close look a few varieties. Sugar maples are native to the North American Northeast, so it's no wonder that they abound here in Western New York. Their habitat is in rich woods with well drained soils.