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Characteristics
 Family-
Aceraceae--The Maple Family
- Origin
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Native NC
- Plant Description
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Deciduous tree to 40 feet; leaves opposite, simple, whitish on underside; flowers in March, yellow, small, on long stalks, separate sexes; fruit in summer, green-brown winged "maple keys."
- Ornamental Characteristics
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Good dark green foliage, excellent yellow to orange fall color.
- Landscape Use
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Small shade tree, specimen tree. Not tolerant of salt spray.
- Horticultural Cultivars
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none
- Availability/Propagation
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Uncommon in nurseries, propagate from seed planted outdoors in fall, keep moist until germination in spring.
- Culture
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Moist soils, full sun to light shade
- Coastal Ecology
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Southern sugar maple is found in low moist areas and at the edge of salt water marshes. The southern sugar maple is closely related to and considered by some to be a subspecies of the sugar maple of the mountains, Acer saccharum.
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