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§1 Plant
Acer grandidentatum Nutt.
vernacular bigtooth maple — species · Aceraceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Shrub, Tree
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Aceraceae Juss.
- Genus
- Acer
§2a
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 71 counties across 9 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- Low
- Shade
- Medium
- Moisture use
- Medium
- Fire
- Medium
- Salinity
- None
- Anaerobic
- Low
- CaCO₃
- None
- Hedging
- None
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- -31 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 100 min.
- Precipitation
- 16–30 in/yr
- pH range
- 6–8
- Root depth
- 24 in min.
- Fertility need
- Medium
- Soil texture
- coarse, medium, fine
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Single Stem
- Growth rate
- Moderate
- Lifespan
- Short
- Mature height
- 38 ft
- Height @ 20 y
- 20 ft
- Foliage texture
- Medium
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Moderate
- Porosity (winter)
- Porous
- Flower colour
- Yellow
- Fruit colour
- Brown
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- None
- Toxicity
- None
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Spring
- Seed abundance
- Medium
- Seed begins
- Summer
- Seed ends
- Summer
- Spread rate
- Slow
- Stratify
- Yes
- Seeds / lb
- 6,350
- Propagation
- seed, bare root, container
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- Routinely Available
- Nursery stock
- No
- Browse palatability
- Low
- Palatable, human
- No
- Lumber
- No
- Fuelwood
- High
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 71 counties across 9 states/territories.
Arizona view state ↗ 10 N ▾
Colorado view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Idaho view state ↗ 11 N ▾
Montana view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Nevada view state ↗ 1 N ▾
New Mexico view state ↗ 9 N ▾
Texas view state ↗ 10 N ▾
Utah view state ↗ 26 N ▾
- Beaver 49001
- Box Elder 49003
- Cache 49005
- Carbon 49007
- Davis 49011
- Duchesne 49013
- Garfield 49017
- Grand 49019
- Iron 49021
- Juab 49023
- Kane 49025
- Millard 49027
- Morgan 49029
- Piute 49031
- Rich 49033
- Salt Lake 49035
- San Juan 49037
- Sanpete 49039
- Sevier 49041
- Summit 49043
- Tooele 49045
- Uintah 49047
- Utah 49049
- Wasatch 49051
- Washington 49053
- Weber 49057
Wyoming view state ↗ 2 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/ACGR3 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/7546232 ↗Record version
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