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Taxon: Acer saccharum Marshall

Genus: Acer section: Acer series: Saccharodendron
Family: Sapindaceae subfamily: Hippocastanoideae. Also placed in: Aceraceae
Nomen number: 409105
Place of publication: Arbust. amer. 4. 1785
Name verified on: 07-Jul-1997 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 04-Apr-2003
No species priority site assigned.

NO ACCESSIONS IN NPGS UNDER THIS NAME.
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Common names:

  • sugar maple   (Source: BSBI )

Economic importance:


Distributional range:

Native: (links to other web resources are provided for some distributions)
  • NORTHERN AMERICA
    Eastern Canada: Canada - Ontario, Quebec [s.e.]
    Northeastern U.S.A.: United States - Connecticut, Indiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Vermont, West Virginia
    North-Central U.S.A.: United States - Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Wisconsin
    Northwestern U.S.A.: United States - Colorado, Idaho, Wyoming
    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 - New Mexico, Texas
    Southwestern U.S.A.: United States - Arizona, Utah
    Northern Mexico: Mexico - Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo Leon, Sonora
  • SOUTHERN AMERICA
    Mesoamerica: Guatemala

References:

  • Botanical Society of the British Isles. 2007. BSBI checklist. (BSBI)
  • Clark, R. C. 1971. The woody plants of Alabama. Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 58:199.
  • Gelderen, D. M. van et al. 1994. Maples of the world. (Maples)
  • Gleason, H. A. & A. Cronquist. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada, ed. 2. (Glea Cron ed2)
  • Little, E. L., Jr. 1971. Atlas of the United States trees. (Atlas Trees US)
  • Little, E. L., Jr. 1979. Checklist of United States trees, Agric. Handb. 541. (Trees US)
  • Magee, D. W. & H. E. Ahles. 1999. Flora of the Northeast. A manual of the vascular flora of New England and adjacent New York. (F NE US)
  • McGregor, R. L. et al. (The Great Plains Flora Association). 1986. Flora of the Great Plains. (F GPlains)
More:

Synonyms:


Check other databases for Acer saccharum Marshall:

  • PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
  • TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
  • 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:

More:
  • Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
  • Google 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.

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USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program.
Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database].
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
URL: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?409105 (21 November 2009)

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