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Types of sugar maple tree4/13/2024 ![]() ![]() (Tsuga canadensis), northern red oak (Quercus rubra), white oak (Q.Īlba), and yellow-poplar (Liriodendron tulipifera). Glauca), beech, eastern white pine (Pinus strobus), eastern hemlock Include American basswood, yellow birch (Betula alleghaniensis), blackĬherry (Prunus serotina), red spruce (Picea rubens), white spruce (P. With other hardwoods and scattered conifers. Sugar maple forms pure stands but also grows mixed Great Lakes pine forests, spruce-fir forests, and northern hardwoodįorests. ![]() It is a prominent component of mesic hardwood forests, Sugar maple is a major species in seven SAF cover types and is common inġ7 others. Its range, sugar maple grows as scattered canopy seed trees or asĪbundant seedlings in protected ravines and relatively mesic Occasionally found on dry rocky hillsides. Maple is often associated with stream terraces, streambanks, valleys,Ĭanyons, ravines, and wooded natural levees. Other sheltered locations on adjacent lower slopes. Sugar maple most commonly occurs in rich, mesic woods but also grows inĭrier upland woods. More info for the terms: cover, hardwood, marsh, mesic, natural, shrub, tree For current distribution, please consult the Plant Profile page for this species on the PLANTS Web site. It grows from Nova Scotia and New Brunswick westward to Ontario and Manitoba, North Dakota and South Dakota, southward into eastern Kansas into Oklahoma, and southward in the east through New England to Georgia. Norway maple ( Acer platanoides), an introduced European species, is often planted and looks similar to sugar maple, but Norway maple has broader leaves with drooping lobes, and sap from a broken petiole is milky.ĭistribution: Sugar maple is widespread in mixed hardwood forests of the eastern United States. nigrum): similar in distribution to ‘true’ sugar maple, but somewhat more restricted. leucoderme): similar in distribution to Florida maple, but not extending into Virginia or up the Mississippi valley.īlack maple ( A. floridanum): primarily a species of the Gulf and southeast Atlantic coastal plain, from Texas to North Carolina and Virginia, and up the Mississippi valley as far as Missouri and Illinois.Ĭhalk maple ( A. Duncan and Duncan (1988) gives a good summary of the distribution and morphology of these species. ![]() Three of them are now generally recognized as species, but the differences are technical and it is difficult to be sure of the correct identifications of trees sold as “sugar maple” in the southeastern US. Variation within the species: Closely similar forms of sugar maple have been recognized at various taxonomic ranks – from varieties to subspecies and species. The common name refers to the use of the species for making sugar and syrup. The fruits are winged nutlets (samaras) in a pair, 2-2.5 cm long, clustered on long stalks, red to red-brown. Most trees are either male or female (the species is essentially dioecious), but both kinds of flowers occur on some trees (technically monoecious), sometimes segregated on different branches. The flowers are small, greenish-yellow, in long-stalked, drooping clusters or racemes, each cluster with 8 to 14 flowers. The leaves are deciduous, opposite, long-petioled, blades 5-11 cm long and about as wide, with 5 shallow, blunt or short-pointed lobes, edges coarsely toothed, dark green and glabrous above, whitish and more or less hairy below, turning intensely red, orange, or yellow in fall. A native tree with a dense, spreading crown, to 25-37(-40) m in height bark light gray to gray-brown, rough, deeply furrowed, and darker with age. Sugar maple is best known for its bright fall foliage and for being the primary source of maple syrup. ![]() Acer saccharum ( sugar maple) is a species of maple native to the hardwood forests of northeastern North America, from Nova Scotia west to southern Ontario, and south to Georgia and Texas. ![]()
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