Sugar maple
NativeAcer saccharum
Soapberry (Sapindaceae) · Maple · 60–80 ft
Knowing it
Five-lobed leaves with smooth edges and the best orange fall color of any native tree. Rich wooded slopes, mostly the eastern half and the Ozark border.
What a tree company sees
Hard, strong wood; dislikes compacted soil, road salt and heat on exposed sites.
Recorded in 68 counties
- Andrew County
- Barry County
- Barton County
- Benton County
- Bollinger County
- Boone County
- Buchanan County
- Butler County
- Callaway County
- Camden County
- Cape Girardeau County
- Carter County
- Christian County
- Clark County
- Clay County
- Clinton County
- Cole County
- Crawford County
- Dallas County
- DeKalb County
- Dunklin County
- Franklin County
- Gasconade County
- Greene County
- Grundy County
- Iron County
- Jackson County
- Jasper County
- Jefferson County
- Johnson County
- Laclede County
- Lafayette County
- Lawrence County
- Lewis County
- Lincoln County
- Livingston County
- Madison County
- Maries County
- Marion County
- McDonald County
- Monroe County
- Montgomery County
- Morgan County
- Newton County
- Oregon County
- Osage County
- Ozark County
- Perry County
- Phelps County
- Platte County
- Polk County
- Ralls County
- Reynolds County
- Shannon County
- St. Charles County
- St. Clair County
- St. Francois County
- St. Louis City
- St. Louis County
- Ste. Genevieve County
- Stone County
- Sullivan County
- Taney County
- Texas County
- Warren County
- Washington County
- Wayne County
- Webster County
From GBIF occurrence records. No record does not mean absent.