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Acer saccharum, the sugar maple, is a species of flowering plant in the soapberry and lychee family Sapindaceae. It is native to the hardwood forests of eastern Canada and the eastern United States. [3] Sugar maple is best known for being the primary source of maple syrup and for its brightly colored fall foliage. [4]
Acer floridanum (syn. Acer saccharum subsp. floridanum (Chapm.) Desmarais, Acer barbatum auct. non Michx.), commonly known as the Florida maple and occasionally as the southern sugar maple or hammock maple, is a tree that occurs in mesic and usually calcareous woodlands of the Atlantic and Gulf coastal plain in the United States, from southeastern Virginia in the north, south to central ...
Aceraceae (maple family) Acer floridanum: Florida maple; southern sugar maple Aceraceae (maple family) Acer barbinerve: bearded maple Aceraceae (maple family) Acer buergerianum: trident maple Aceraceae (maple family) Acer caesium: Himalayan maple Aceraceae (maple family) Acer campbellii: Campbell's maple Aceraceae (maple family) Acer campestre ...
Acer grandidentatum, commonly called bigtooth maple or western sugar maple, [2] [3] is a species of maple native to interior western North America. It occurs in scattered populations from western Montana to central Texas in the United States and south to Coahuila in northern Mexico .
Maple (Acer) Hard maple Sugar maple (Acer saccharum) Black maple (Acer nigrum) Soft maple Boxelder (Acer negundo) Red maple (Acer rubrum) Silver maple (Acer saccharinum) European maple Sycamore maple (Acer pseudoplatanus) Marblewood (Marmaroxylon racemosum) Marri, red gum (Corymbia calophylla) Meranti (Shorea spp.) Merbau, ipil (Intsia bijuga ...
Sugar maple: Acer saccharum: 1949 [57] [58] Virginia: Flowering dogwood: Cornus florida: 1956 [59] Washington: Western hemlock: Tsuga heterophylla: 1947 [60] [61] West Virginia: Sugar maple: Acer saccharum: 1949 [62] Wisconsin: Sugar maple: Acer saccharum: 1949 [63] Wyoming: Plains cottonwood: Populus deltoides monilifera: 1947, amended 1961 [64]
A member of the Aceraceae (maple) family, Acer leucoderme can be most easily differentiated from its closest cousin, Acer floridanum (Florida maple or Southern sugar maple), by its leaves and size. The leaves of the chalk maple are generally smaller, 5-8 cm across, with 3 to 5 lobes, whereas the leaves of the Florida maple are larger, up to 11 cm.
Black Maple: Dade County, Georgia and Walker County, Georgia: Least Concern: Aceraceae: Acer pensylvanicum L. [1]: 189–190 Striped Maple: Higher elevations of the Blue Ridge Mountains: Least Concern: Aceraceae: Acer rubrum L. [1]: 190–191 Red Maple: Common state-wide Least Concern: Aceraceae: Acer saccharinum L. [1]: 191–192 Silver Maple