Taxon: Acer saccharum Marshall subsp. saccharum

See other conspecific taxa:

• Acer saccharum (2 accessions)
• Acer saccharum subsp. floridanum (no accessions)
• Acer saccharum subsp. leucoderme (2 accessions)
• Acer saccharum subsp. nigrum (3 accessions)
• Acer saccharum subsp. ozarkense (no accessions)
• Acer saccharum subsp. skutchii (no accessions)

Common names:

• hard maple   (Source: Trees US ) – English
  
• rock maple   (Source: Trees US ) – English
  
• sugar maple   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• érable à sucre   (Source: F Canada ) – French
  
• Zuckerahorn   (Source: Zander ed14 ) – German
  
• acero da zucchero   (Source: Mult Glossary Trees ) – Italian
  
• sockerlönn   (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)
  
• Human food: sugar   (for making maple syrup fide Maples; Food Feed Crops US)
  
• Materials: fiber   (for wood pulp fide AH 519)
  
• Materials: wood   (for wood pulp fide AH 519)
  

More:

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 - New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Ontario
  Western Canada: Canada - Manitoba
  Northeastern U.S.A.: United States - Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Vermont, West Virginia
  North-Central U.S.A.: United States - Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wisconsin
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Georgia, Kentucky, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia
  South-Central U.S.A.: United States - Texas

• also cultivated

References:

• Encke, F. et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage.
• Encke, F. et al. 1993. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 14. Auflage.
• Gelderen, D. M. van et al. 1994. Maples of the world.
• Gleason, H. A. & A. Cronquist. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada, ed. 2.
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
• Little, E. L., Jr. 1978. Important forest trees of the United States.
• Little, E. L., Jr. 1979. Checklist of United States trees, Agric. Handb. 541.
• Mansfeld, R. 1959. Die Kulturpflanze, Beiheft 2.
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2.
• McGregor, R. L. et al. (The Great Plains Flora Association). 1986. Flora of the Great Plains.
• Mitchell, R. S., ed. 1986. A checklist of New York state plants. New York State Mus. Bull. 458.
• Murray, A. E. 1970. A monograph of the Aceraceae. Ph.D. diss., Pennsylvania State Univ.
• Ohio Flora Committee (E. L. Braun, T. S. Cooperrider, T. R. Fisher, J. J. Furlow). 1967–. The vascular flora of Ohio.
• Ownbey, G. B. & T. Morley. 1991. Vascular plants of Minnesota: a checklist and atlas.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Scoggan, H. J. 1978–1979. The flora of Canada, 4 vol.
• Seymour, F. 1969. The flora of New England.
• Steyermark, J. A. 1977. Flora of Missouri.
• Voss, E. 1972–. Michigan flora.

Synonyms:

• (=) Acer rugelii Pax
  
• (=) Acer saccharum var. rugelii (Pax) Rehder
  
• (=) Acer saccharum var. schneckii Rehder
  

Check other web resources for Acer saccharum Marshall subsp. saccharum:

• 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 (on-line resource). for Acer saccharum subsp. saccharum cultivars

Check other databases for 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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