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Acer saccharinum

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Acer saccharinum
Silver Maple, Soft Maple
Maple trees include a broad spectrum of types, sizes, shapes and foliage. They are evergreen or deciduous, shrubby or lofty, with deeply lobed or finely cut leaves.

 


Acer saccharinum Aceraceae
Silver Maple   A-ser sak-kar-I-num
Deciduous tree, 80-100 ft (24-30 m), decurrent, ascending branches, rounded form. Opposite leaves, 7.5-15 cm across, deeply lobed (5 lobes), bright green above and silvery below.

silver maple Aceraceae Acer saccharinum L.   symbol: ACSA2
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Acer saccharinum f. laciniatum
also known as Acer dasycarpum - Silver maple
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Common Names: silver maple, soft maple, white maple, river maple
Family: Aceraceae (maple Family)
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Acer saccharinum
COMMON: Silver Maple
LEAVES: Deciduous, green, yellow in fall
SIZE: 50 to 70' and larger, 2/3 width
HARDINESS: Zone 3 to 9
HABIT: Upright-oval to rounded crown
GROWTH RATE: Fast, 18" to 24" per year ...

Acer saccharinum. SILVER MAPLE. Eastern North America, Texas
ACERACEAE (Maple family) ...

Acer saccharinum 'Beebe' : Cutleaf Silver Maple - Whole Plant
Acer saccharum 'Green Mountain' : Green Mountain Sugar Maple - Whole Plant
Acer saccharum 'Monumentale' : Monument Sugar Maple - Whole Plant ...

Acer saccharinum (Linn.), the Sugar or Bird's Eye Maple, is an American species, introduced into Britain in 1735.

Acer saccharinum ( Lacinatum Wieri Silver Maple )
Acer saccharinum ( Pyramidale Silver Maple )
Acer saccharinum ( Silver Maple ) ...

Acer saccharinum 'wieri'
General Notes
SelecTree lists 4 cultivars of saccharinum: (1)'pyramidale' (2)'silver queen' (3)'skinneri' (4)'wieri'
An Acer saccharinum in Garden Grove is registered as a California Big Tree.

Silver Maple
(Acer saccharinum L.)
LEAVES: Opposite, simple, deeply 5-lobed and coarsely toothed, about 5" wide, bright green above, silvery-white beneath. Fall color is a greenish-yellow.

Silver maple (Acer saccharinum, above right) Zone 3
Cherry birch (Betula lenta) Zone 3
Yellow-wood (Cladrastis kentukea) Zone 4
Summersweet (Clethra alnifolia) Zone 4
Thornless honeylocust (Gleditsia triacanthos var. inermis cvs.) Zone 4 ...

Acer negundo, Acer saccharinum, Actinomeris alternifolia, Ambrosia trifida Asarum canadense, Campanula americana, Celtis occidentalis, Cryptotaenia canadensis, Elymus virginicus, Fraxinus americana, Galium aparine, Geum canadense, ...

Silver Maple (Acer saccharinum) - This is the fastest growing of all American maple species (10 to 12 feet in four to five years). It grows 50 to 70 feet tall, 35 to 50 feet wide.

Silver maples (Acer saccharinum) are big, fast growing trees capable of reaching 80 feet in height with a spread almost equal their height.

Acer saccharinum, Silver Maple
Aesculus spp., Buckeyes
Betula lenta, Sweet Birch
Chamaecyparis thyoides, Atlantic White Cypress or Atlantic Whitecedar
Cornus florida, Flowering Dogwood
Diospyros spp., Persimmon ...

Trees: Red Maple (Acer rubrum), Silver Maple (Acer saccharinum), Yellow Birch (Betula alleghaniensis), Black Ash (Fraxinus nigra), White Cedar (Thuja occidentalis), American Elm (Ulmus americana) ...

Sugar Maple, Acer saccharum
Red Maple, Acer rubrum
Silver Maple, Acer saccharinum
Box Elder, Acer negundo
Norway Maple, Acer platanoides
Japanese Maple, Acerpalmatum
Paperbark Maple, Acer griseum ...

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Acer saccharum, the sugar maple, is grown as above, though ideally in full sun, as are the Norway maple, Acer platanoides, and silver maple, Acer saccharinum; the latter is also fairly pollution-tolerant. Hardy respectively to zones 3-7, 4-7, and 3-8.

Silver Maple (Acer saccharinum) - weak wooded
Catalpa (Catalpa speciosa) - pods and weak wooded
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See also: Acer, Maple, Green, Acer saccharum, Acer rubrum