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§1 Plant
Acer floridanum (Chapm.) Pax
vernacular southern sugar maple — species · Aceraceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Tree
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Aceraceae Juss.
- Genus
- Acer
§2a
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 341 counties across 16 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- Low
- Shade
- Low
- Moisture use
- Medium
- Fire
- None
- Salinity
- None
- Anaerobic
- None
- CaCO₃
- Medium
- Hedging
- None
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- -18 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 200 min.
- Precipitation
- 40–65 in/yr
- pH range
- 5–6.5
- Root depth
- 24 in min.
- Fertility need
- Medium
- Soil texture
- coarse, medium
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Single Stem
- Growth rate
- Moderate
- Lifespan
- Moderate
- Mature height
- 50 ft
- Height @ 20 y
- 30 ft
- Foliage texture
- Medium
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Dense
- Porosity (winter)
- Porous
- Flower colour
- Yellow
- Fruit colour
- Red
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- None
- Toxicity
- None
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Mid Spring
- Seed abundance
- High
- Seed begins
- Spring
- Seed ends
- Summer
- Spread rate
- Slow
- Stratify
- No
- Seeds / lb
- 7,000
- Propagation
- seed, cuttings, bare root, container
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- No Known Source
- Nursery stock
- Yes
- Browse palatability
- Low
- Palatable, human
- Yes
- Lumber
- Yes
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 341 counties across 16 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 60 N ▾
- Autauga 01001
- Barbour 01005
- Bibb 01007
- Blount 01009
- Bullock 01011
- Butler 01013
- Calhoun 01015
- Chambers 01017
- Cherokee 01019
- Chilton 01021
- Choctaw 01023
- Clarke 01025
- Clay 01027
- Cleburne 01029
- Colbert 01033
- Conecuh 01035
- Coosa 01037
- Crenshaw 01041
- Cullman 01043
- Dale 01045
- Dallas 01047
- DeKalb 01049
- Elmore 01051
- Escambia 01053
- Etowah 01055
- Fayette 01057
- Franklin 01059
- Geneva 01061
- Greene 01063
- Hale 01065
- Houston 01069
- Jackson 01071
- Jefferson 01073
- Lamar 01075
- Lauderdale 01077
- Lawrence 01079
- Lee 01081
- Limestone 01083
- Lowndes 01085
- Macon 01087
- Madison 01089
- Marengo 01091
- Marion 01093
- Marshall 01095
- Monroe 01099
- Montgomery 01101
- Morgan 01103
- Perry 01105
- Pike 01109
- Randolph 01111
- Russell 01113
- Shelby 01117
- St. Clair 01115
- Sumter 01119
- Talladega 01121
- Tallapoosa 01123
- Tuscaloosa 01125
- Walker 01127
- Wilcox 01131
- Winston 01133
Arkansas view state ↗ 53 N ▾
- Arkansas 05001
- Ashley 05003
- Baxter 05005
- Benton 05007
- Bradley 05011
- Calhoun 05013
- Carroll 05015
- Clark 05019
- Cleburne 05023
- Cleveland 05025
- Columbia 05027
- Craighead 05031
- Crawford 05033
- Cross 05037
- Dallas 05039
- Drew 05043
- Franklin 05047
- Fulton 05049
- Garland 05051
- Hempstead 05057
- Hot Spring 05059
- Howard 05061
- Izard 05065
- Johnson 05071
- Lee 05077
- Logan 05083
- Madison 05087
- Marion 05089
- Miller 05091
- Monroe 05095
- Montgomery 05097
- Nevada 05099
- Newton 05101
- Ouachita 05103
- Phillips 05107
- Pike 05109
- Poinsett 05111
- Polk 05113
- Pope 05115
- Prairie 05117
- Randolph 05121
- Saline 05125
- Scott 05127
- Searcy 05129
- Sevier 05133
- Sharp 05135
- St. Francis 05123
- Stone 05137
- Union 05139
- Van Buren 05141
- Washington 05143
- White 05145
- Yell 05149
Florida view state ↗ 20 N ▾
Georgia view state ↗ 42 N ▾
- Baker 13007
- Burke 13033
- Cherokee 13057
- Clarke 13059
- Clay 13061
- Columbia 13073
- Decatur 13087
- DeKalb 13089
- Dooly 13093
- Dougherty 13095
- Early 13099
- Effingham 13103
- Elbert 13105
- Floyd 13115
- Glascock 13125
- Grady 13131
- Greene 13133
- Hancock 13141
- Harris 13145
- Houston 13153
- Jackson 13157
- Jasper 13159
- Jefferson 13163
- Johnson 13167
- Laurens 13175
- Lee 13177
- Lincoln 13181
- Macon 13193
- Madison 13195
- Meriwether 13199
- Miller 13201
- Monroe 13207
- Oglethorpe 13221
- Pulaski 13235
- Putnam 13237
- Randolph 13243
- Seminole 13253
- Talbot 13263
- Walker 13295
- Washington 13303
- Wilkes 13317
- Worth 13321
Illinois view state ↗ 4 N ▾
Indiana view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 17 N ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 20 N ▾
- Bienville 22013
- Bossier 22015
- Caddo 22017
- Caldwell 22021
- Claiborne 22027
- De Soto 22031
- East Baton Rouge 22033
- East Feliciana 22037
- Lincoln 22061
- Morehouse 22067
- Natchitoches 22069
- Rapides 22079
- Red River 22081
- Sabine 22085
- St. Helena 22091
- Union 22111
- Vernon 22115
- Webster 22119
- West Feliciana 22125
- Winn 22127
Mississippi view state ↗ 24 N ▾
- Choctaw 28019
- Claiborne 28021
- Franklin 28037
- Hinds 28049
- Holmes 28051
- Kemper 28069
- Lafayette 28071
- Lamar 28073
- Lauderdale 28075
- Lee 28081
- Marion 28091
- Monroe 28095
- Noxubee 28103
- Panola 28107
- Pontotoc 28115
- Scott 28123
- Smith 28129
- Tishomingo 28141
- Union 28145
- Walthall 28147
- Warren 28149
- Wayne 28153
- Wilkinson 28157
- Winston 28159
Missouri view state ↗ 13 N ▾
North Carolina view state ↗ 30 N ▾
- Alamance 37001
- Bladen 37017
- Cabarrus 37025
- Caswell 37033
- Chatham 37037
- Cherokee 37039
- Craven 37049
- Cumberland 37051
- Davidson 37057
- Davie 37059
- Durham 37063
- Franklin 37069
- Guilford 37081
- Halifax 37083
- Harnett 37085
- Iredell 37097
- Jones 37103
- Lee 37105
- Martin 37117
- Moore 37125
- Northampton 37131
- Onslow 37133
- Orange 37135
- Pender 37141
- Pitt 37147
- Randolph 37151
- Rockingham 37157
- Rowan 37159
- Vance 37181
- Wake 37183
Oklahoma view state ↗ 7 N ▾
South Carolina view state ↗ 17 N ▾
Tennessee view state ↗ 12 N ▾
Texas view state ↗ 4 N ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 17 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/ACFL ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/7767061 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
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