Taxon: Acer rubrum L.

See also subordinate taxa:

• Acer rubrum var. tomentosum (no accessions)

Common names:

• red maple   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• Rotahorn   (Source: Zander ed14 ) – German
  

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see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental; shade/shelter   (fide AH 519)
  
• Materials: wood   (fide R. B. Miller, pers. comm. 1996)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide CRC MedHerbs ed2)
  
• Vertebrate poisons: mammals   (fide Kingsbury)
  

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View toxicology references for Acer rubrum from FDA Poisonous Plant Database

View ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

View ethnobotanical data from Moerman's Native American Ethnobotany Database

Distributional range:

• NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
  Eastern Canada: Canada - Newfoundland [s.], Nova Scotia, Ontario [s.], Quebec [s.]
  Western Canada: Canada - Manitoba [s.e.]
  Northeastern U.S.A.: United States - Connecticut, Indiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, West Virginia
  North-Central U.S.A.: United States - Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Oklahoma, Wisconsin
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia
  South-Central U.S.A.: United States - Texas

• also cultivated

References:

• Clark, R. C. 1971. The woody plants of Alabama. Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 58:199.
• Correll, D. S. & M. C. Johnston. 1970. Manual of the vascular plants of Texas. (F Tex)
• Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs. (CRC MedHerbs ed2)
• Encke, F. et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage. (Zander ed13)
• Encke, F. et al. 1993. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 14. Auflage. (Zander ed14)
• Gelderen, D. M. van et al. 1994. Maples of the world. (Maples) 236.
• Gleason, H. A. & A. Cronquist. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada, ed. 2. (Glea Cron ed2)
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. (Hortus 3)
• Little, E. L., Jr. 1978. Important forest trees of the United States. (AH 519)
• Little, E. L., Jr. 1979. Checklist of United States trees, Agric. Handb. 541. (Trees US)
• Meyer, F. G. et al. 1994. A catalog of cultivated woody plants of the southeastern United States. (L CultWPl SE US)
• Mitchell, R. S., ed. 1986. A checklist of New York state plants. New York State Mus. Bull. 458. (L New York)
• Munro, D. B. Canadian poisonous plants information system - on-line resource. (Can Poison Pl)
• 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)
• Scoggan, H. J. 1978–1979. The flora of Canada, 4 vol. (F Canada)
• Seymour, F. 1969. The flora of New England. (F NEng)
• Steyermark, J. A. 1977. Flora of Missouri. (F Missouri)
• Strausbaugh, T. D. & E. L. Core. 1978. Flora of West Virginia, ed. 2. (F WVa)
• Voss, E. 1972–. Michigan flora. (F Mich)

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Acer rubrum.

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

Synonyms:

• Acer rubrum f. tomentosum (Tausch) Voss [≡ Acer rubrum var. tomentosum]
  

Check other databases for Acer rubrum L.:

• 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 rubrum 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:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.
• 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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