Acer saccharum
sugar maple
Sugar maple is not just a northern U.S. tree. You can
find sugar maple from Florida to Maine. However, the leaf is memorialized on Canada's flag
and sugar maple tree sap is the backbone of Vermont's syrup industry. The
beautiful fall foliage of New England, which includes sugar maple, attracts
millions of leaf "peepers" and their dollars into the northeast U.S.
region.
Photos by permission - Paul Wray,
ForestryImages.org
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Sugar
Maple Habitat and Culture
(silvics courtesy of Silvics Manual, USFS)
Wood
Technical Fact Sheet
(courtesy of Hardwoods of North America, Forest
Products Lab, USFS)
Fire
Effects On Sugar Maple
(courtesy of U.S. Forest Service, Fire Effects)
From Virginia Tech
w/Photos
(Big List courtesy of VT Dendrology)
North American Timber Types
(courtesy About Forestry)
The Great American Hardwood Forest
(courtesy About Forestry)
Recent Champion: 65' height, 54' spread, 274" circumf.,
Kitzmiller, Maryland
National Register
of Big Trees
Sugar Maple Research and Extension Program
Brought to you by Cornell University
Sugar
Maple Images
(courtesy of ForestryImages.org)
Buy a Sugar
Maple Online
(Nurseries selling seedlings online)
Range Map
-The native range of sugar maple, USFS.
Quick Stats
Common Names: hard maple or rock maple.
Habitat: Grows naturally in moist soils.
Description: One of the largest and more important of the hardwoods, the
greatest commercial volumes are presently in Michigan, New York, Maine, Wisconsin, and
Pennsylvania.
Uses: syrup, saw logs, pulpwood, and more recently, firewood.
