Taxon: Acer platanoides L.

A declared aquatic or terrestrial noxious weed and/or noxious-weed seed in these U.S. states (see state noxious weed lists), with links to state information or web documents:

MA*, NH*.

ªAquatic.

*Terrestrial.

°In seed.

Link to noxious weed information from

See also subordinate taxa:

• Acer platanoides subsp. platanoides (no accessions)
• Acer platanoides subsp. turkestanicum (no accessions)

Common names:

• Norway maple   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• érable plane   (Source: Maples ) – French
  
• Spitzahorn   (Source: Maples ) – German
  
• acero riccio   (Source: Mult Glossary Trees ) – Italian
  
• klen ostrolistnyj   (Source: F Baltic ) – Transliterated Russian
  
• klen platanovidnyj   (Source: F Baltic ) – Transliterated Russian
  
• skogslönn   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Maples)
  
• Environmental: shade/shelter   (fide Maples)
  
• Materials: wood   (timber fide Ency WTimber)
  
• Weed: potential seed contaminant   (fide Rep NCEPPC)
  

Distributional range:

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Western Asia: Afghanistan; Iran [n.]
  Caucasus: Armenia; Azerbaijan; Georgia; Russian Federation - Ciscaucasia, Dagestan
  Middle Asia: Kyrgyzstan; Tajikistan
• EUROPE
  Northern Europe: Finland; Norway; Sweden
  Middle Europe: Austria; Belgium; Czechoslovakia; Germany; Hungary; Poland; Switzerland
  East Europe: Belarus; Estonia; Latvia; Lithuania; Russian Federation - European part; Ukraine
  Southeastern Europe: Albania; Bulgaria; Former Yugoslavia; Greece; Italy; Romania
  Southwestern Europe: France; Spain

• also cultivated

References:

• Afonin, A. N., S. L. Greene, N. I. Dzyubenko, & A. N. Frolov, eds. Interactive agricultural ecological atlas of Russia and neighboring countries. Economic plants and their diseases, pests and weeds (on-line resource).
• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• Boutelje, J. B. 1980. Encyclopedia of world timbers, names and technical literature.
• Campbell, F. T., ed. 1995. Report of National Coalition of Exotic Plant Pest Councils. (unpublished draft)
• Davis, P. H., ed. 1965–1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands.
• Encke, F. et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage.
• Gelderen, D. M. van et al. 1994. Maples of the world. 227–228.
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening.
• International Seed Testing Association. 1971. A Multilingual Glossary of Common Plant-Names 2. Trees.
• Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. 1934–1964. Flora SSSR.
• Laasimer, L. et al., eds. 1993–. Flora of the Baltic countries; compendium of vascular plants.
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
• Little, E. L., Jr. 1979. Checklist of United States trees, Agric. Handb. 541.
• Meyer, F. G. et al. 1994. A catalog of cultivated woody plants of the southeastern United States.
• Murray, A. E. 1970. A monograph of the Aceraceae. Ph.D. diss., Pennsylvania State Univ.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Rechinger, K. H., ed. 1963–. Flora iranica.
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea.
• Walters, S. M. et al., eds. 1986–. European garden flora.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Acer platanoides.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Acer platanoides.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Acer platanoides.

Synonyms:

• (=) Acer platanoides var. schwedleri K. Koch
  
• (=) Acer platanoides f. stollii Schwer.
  
• Acer turkestanicum Pax [≡ Acer platanoides subsp. turkestanicum]
  (previously associated with 2 accessions)

Check other web resources for Acer platanoides L.:

• Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ICRA: International Cultivar Registration Authority (on-line resource). for Acer platanoides 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.

Images:

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

More:

• 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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