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Acer saccharum
Also called Hard Maple, Rock Maple
Sugar maple is a large deciduous shade tree from eastern North America, grown for its brilliant fall color and as the source of maple syrup. It is a tree, not a houseplant, so it needs open ground with room to grow.
Acer saccharum, the sugar maple, is a species of flowering plant in the soapberry and lychee family, Sapindaceae. It may also be called rock maple, sugar tree, sweet maple, or, particularly in reference to the wood, hard maple.
Sugar maple is native to the hardwood forests of eastern North America. It is best known for being the primary source of maple syrup.
It is native to the hardwood forests of eastern Canada and the eastern United States.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Acer saccharum by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
