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Family: Sapindaceae
southern sugar maple
[ Acer barbatum var. longii (Fernald) Fernald, moreAcer barbatum var. villipes (Rehder) Ashe, Acer floridanum (Chapman) Pax, Acer floridanum var. longii Fernald, Acer floridanum var. villipes Rehder, Acer nigrum var. floridanum (Chapm.) Fosberg, Acer saccharinum var. floridanum Chapm., Acer saccharum subsp. floridanum (Chapm.) Desmarais, Acer saccharum var. floridanum (Chapm.) Small & A.Heller, Saccharodendron barbatum (Michx.) Nieuwl., Saccharodendron floridanum (Chapman) Nieuwl.] |
Tree with smooth, pale gray, beech-like bark, becoming shallowly furrowed and scaly-ridged only on large trunks; lvs rarely over 10 cm wide, finely pubescent and pale or glaucous beneath, 5-lobed, with or without a few low teeth, both teeth and lobes obtuse or rounded; cal densely hirsute within; ovary and young fr pubescent; otherwise much like no. 2 [Acer saccharum Marshall]. Forests, especially on the piedmont and coastal plain; se. Va. to n. Fla., e. Tex., Ark., and e. Okla. (A. floridanum)
Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp.
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