Red Maple

TREES

GENUS/SPECIES

Acer rubrum

FAMILY

Aceraceae
(all maples, including box elder, and Chinese Dipteronia)

SYNONYMS

Information not available

DISTRIBUTION

Eastern US

E Texas northward to Minnesota
Minnesota eastward to Maine
Maine southward to S Florida
Absent from Iowa, N Missouri, and central Illinois

Human Product Number - 108

Veterinary Product Number - 108

Comments

This is a common deciduous tree found in many kinds of forests, but favoring those that are rather moist. It is prized as an ornamental. This tree earns the name “red” because the following are of this color: young twigs, flowers, winged pairs of seeds, immature leaves, autumn leaves. The flowers form in the early spring before the leaves, and they are at least partially insect-pollinated.