Taxon: Acer saccharum Marshall subsp. nigrum (F. Michx.) Desmarais

See other conspecific taxa:

• Acer saccharum (2 accessions)
• Acer saccharum subsp. floridanum (no accessions)
• Acer saccharum subsp. leucoderme (2 accessions)
• Acer saccharum subsp. ozarkense (no accessions)
• Acer saccharum subsp. saccharum (1 accessions)
• Acer saccharum subsp. skutchii (no accessions)

Common names:

• black maple   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• black sugar maple   (Source: Trees US [as A. nigrum]) – English
  
• rock maple   (Source: Trees US [as A. nigrum]) – English
  
• svartlönn   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

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see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Maples)
  
• Environmental: shade/shelter   (fide AH 519, as A. nigrum)
  
• Human food: sugar   (for making maple syrup fide Maples; Food Feed Crops US)
  
• Materials: wood   (fide AH 519, as A. nigrum)
  

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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 - Ontario [s.], Quebec [s.]
  Northeastern U.S.A.: United States - Connecticut, Indiana, Massachusetts, Michigan [s.], New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Vermont, West Virginia
  North-Central U.S.A.: United States - Illinois, Iowa, Kansas [n.e.], Minnesota [s.], Missouri, Wisconsin
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Arkansas [n.w.], Kentucky, North Carolina [w.], Tennessee

• also cultivated

References:

• 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).
• Gelderen, D. M. van et al. 1994. Maples of the world.
• Little, E. L., Jr. 1978. Important forest trees of the United States. [= A. nigrum F. Michx.].
• Little, E. L., Jr. 1979. Checklist of United States trees, Agric. Handb. 541. [= A. nigrum F. Michx.].
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2.
• 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.
• Ohio Flora Committee (E. L. Braun, T. S. Cooperrider, T. R. Fisher, J. J. Furlow). 1967–. The vascular flora of Ohio. [= A. saccharum var. viride (Schmidt) E. A. Murray].
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Voss, E. 1972–. Michigan flora. [mentions].

Synonyms:

• (≡) Acer nigrum F. Michx. (basionym)
  (previously associated with 1 accession)

Check other web resources for Acer saccharum Marshall subsp. nigrum (F. Michx.) Desmarais:

• 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. nigrum cultivars

Images:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.

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• 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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