Taxon: Acer spicatum Lam.

Common names:

• moose maple   (Source: Trees US )
  
• mountain maple   (Source: Maples )
  

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see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Dict Gard)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide Herbs Commerce ed2)
  

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View ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

View ethnobotanical data from Moerman's Native American Ethnobotany Database

Distributional range:

Native: (links to other web resources are provided for some distributions)

• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Eastern Canada: Canada - New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, Quebec
  Western Canada: Canada - Manitoba, Saskatchewan [e.]
  Northeastern U.S.A.: United States - Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Vermont, West Virginia
  North-Central U.S.A.: United States - Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Georgia [n.], Kentucky, Maryland [w.], North Carolina [w.], Tennessee, Virginia [w.]

References:

• Encke, F. et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage. (Zander ed13)
• Gelderen, D. M. van et al. 1994. Maples of the world. (Maples)
• Gleason, H. A. & A. Cronquist. 1963. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. (Glea Cron)
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. (Dict Gard)
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. (Hortus 3)
• Little, E. L., Jr. 1979. Checklist of United States trees, Agric. Handb. 541. (Trees US)
• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2. (Herbs Commerce ed2)
• Meyer, F. G. et al. 1994. A catalog of cultivated woody plants of the southeastern United States. (L CultWPl SE US)
• Murray, A. E. 1970. A monograph of the Aceraceae. Ph.D. diss., Pennsylvania State Univ. (Monog Acer)
• Ownbey, G. B. & T. Morley. 1991. Vascular plants of Minnesota: a checklist and atlas. (L Minn)
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)
• Rehder, A. 1949. Bibliography of cultivated trees and shrubs. (Rehder)
• Scoggan, H. J. 1978–1979. The flora of Canada, 4 vol. (F Canada)
• Seymour, F. 1969. The flora of New England. (F NEng)
• Strausbaugh, T. D. & E. L. Core. 1978. Flora of West Virginia, ed. 2. (F WVa)

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Acer spicatum.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Acer spicatum. Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Check other databases for Acer spicatum Lam.:

• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ICRA: International Cultivar Registration Authority for Acer spicatum cultivars
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.
  Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Images:

• Embryo drawing: U.S. National Seed Herbarium drawing
• Forestry Images: from www.forestryimages.org
• Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image

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• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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