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Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Rosids: Malvids: Sapindales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Acer spicatum   FAMILY Sapindaceae   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Acer spicatum   FAMILY Aceraceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 115-01-002:

Acer spicatum   FAMILY Aceraceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Acer spicatum

 

COMMON NAME:
Mountain Maple


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image of Acer spicatum, Mountain Maple

USDA Forest Service / A Guide to Medicinal Plants of Appalachia. 1969    mpa_page_029

        

image of Acer spicatum, Mountain Maple

Manual of the Trees of North America (Exclusive of Mexico) (Sargent, 1905)    mtna_i_717

        

image of Acer spicatum, Mountain Maple

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_acsp2_001_lvd

        

image of Acer spicatum, Mountain Maple

JK Marlow    jkm0305q_15

May    Haywood County    NC

Corneille Bryan Native Garden

Flowers in terminal erect racemes or panicles, appearing after the leaves, per Native Trees of the Southeast, An Identification Guide (Kirkman, Brown, & Leopold, 2007).


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image of Acer spicatum, Mountain Maple

JK Marlow    s060520_b

May    Haywood County    NC

Corneille Bryan Native Garden

image of Acer spicatum, Mountain Maple

JK Marlow    jkm090610_017

June    Transylvania County    NC

Blue Ridge Parkway

Male and female flowers in separate upright clusters [these staminate], per Trees of the Southeastern United States (Duncan & Duncan, 1988).

image of Acer spicatum, Mountain Maple

Richard and Teresa Ware    rtw_a_spicatum_1

July    Towns-Union Counties    GA

Brasstown Bald

Secondary & tertiary veins impressed on upper surface, distinctly raised below, per Weakley's Flora.

image of Acer spicatum, Mountain Maple

Richard and Teresa Ware    rtw_a_spicatum_6

July    Towns-Union Counties    GA

Brasstown Bald

Bark brownish, scaly or thinly furrowed, per Woody Plants of the Blue Ridge (Lance).

image of Acer spicatum, Mountain Maple

JK Marlow    jkm0511a_29

November    Haywood County    NC

Corneille Bryan Native Garden

image of Acer spicatum, Mountain Maple

JK Marlow    s051106_a

November    Haywood County    NC

Corneille Bryan Native Garden

Leaves coarsely serrate (2-3 teeth per cm), per Weakley's Flora.


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image of Acer spicatum, Mountain Maple

JK Marlow    s051106_b

November    Haywood County    NC

Corneille Bryan Native Garden

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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Acer spicatum   FAMILY Sapindaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Acer spicatum   FAMILY Aceraceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 115-01-002:
Acer spicatum   FAMILY Aceraceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Acer spicatum

 

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Tree
Perennial
Monoecious

Habitat: High elevation forests (northern hardwoods or spruce-fir), generally above 1500 m in NC, above 900 m in VA, especially common in periglacial boulderfields, per Weakley's Flora

Native to North Carolina & Georgia

Uncommon (rare in GA & SC)

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DOES THE PLANT HAVE "MILKY SAP"?
Does not have milky sap

LEAVES:
Deciduous
Simple
Opposite

FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
Yellowish-green
Radially symmetrical
5 sepals
5 petals
Unisexual

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Schizocarp composed of two 1-seeded samaras

 

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