Acer spicatum

Acer spicatum
1819 illustration[1]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Sapindales
Family: Sapindaceae
Genus: Acer
Section: Acer sect. Spicata
Species:
A. spicatum
Binomial name
Acer spicatum
Lam. 1786
Generalized natural range
Synonyms
List
  • Acer dedyle Maxim.
  • Acer montanum W.T.Aiton
  • Acer parviflorum Ehrh.
  • Acer pumilum W.Bartram
  • Acer striatum Du Roi

Acer spicatum, the mountain maple, dwarf maple, moose maple, or white maple, is a species of maple native to northeastern North America from Saskatchewan to Newfoundland, and south to Pennsylvania. It also grows at high elevations in the southern Appalachian Mountains to northern Georgia.[3]

  1. ^ 1819 illustration. Source The North American sylva, or A description of the forest trees of the United States, Canada and Nova Scotia ... to which is added a description of the most useful of the European forest trees ... Translated from the French of F. Andrew Michaux.
  2. ^ Crowley, D.; Rivers, M.C. (2018). "Acer spicatum". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2018: e.T193872A2287797. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T193872A2287797.en. Retrieved 11 November 2021.
  3. ^ "Acer spicatum". County-level distribution map from the North American Plant Atlas (NAPA). Biota of North America Program (BONAP). 2014. Retrieved 3 September 2016.