| Family | Scientific Name | Common Name | Habitat | Distribution | Image |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sapindaceae | Acer ×freemanii | ||||
| Sapindaceae | Acer buergerianum | Trident Maple | Used horticulturally, establishing in suburban areas and likely to spread more extensively in the future. | Native of China and Japan. |  (c) belvedere04 - CC-BY |
| Sapindaceae | Acer campestre | Hedge Maple | Suburban woodlands, planted and persistent and weakly spreading. | Native of Europe and w. Asia. Reported to be "occasionally spreading from cultivation to moist, rocky, disturbed woods" in sc. and se. Pennsylvania (Rhoads & Klein 1993; Rhoads & Block 2007). |  (c) Parks, Summit Metro - CC-BY |
| Sapindaceae | Acer circinatum | Vine Maple | |||
| Sapindaceae | Acer floridanum | Southern Sugar Maple, Florida Maple, Sugartree | Bottomland forests, mesic slopes, especially common over mafic or calcareous rocks, but not at all limited to such situations; also widely planted in southern cities and towns as a street tree. | S. Virginia, w. Kentucky, se. Missouri, e. Oklahoma, c. Oklahoma, and n. Texas, south to c. peninsular Florida and e. Texas. Alleged by POWO (2024) to also be in n. Mexico; likely based on records of A. grandidentatum. |  (c) Sorrie, Bruce A. - CC-BY |
| Sapindaceae | Acer ginnala | Amur Maple | Cultivated, rarely and sparingly escaped to roadsides, disturbed areas, and suburban woodlands. | Native of e. Asia. Reported as "cultivated and occasionally escaped" in s. Pennsylvania (Rhoads & Klein 1993; Rhoads & Block 2007). Wright et al. (2023) report local naturalization from two separate sites in Virginia. |  (c) Marcum, Paul |
| Sapindaceae | Acer grandidentatum | Canyon Maple, Bigtooth Maple | Limestone canyons. | C. Texas, west to sw. Montana, e. Idaho, w. Wyoming, sw. Colorado, Utah, Nevada, New Mexico, Arizona, w. Texas, and Mexico (Sonora, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo León, and Tamaulipas). |  (c) Sorrie, Bruce A. - CC-BY |
| Sapindaceae | Acer japonicum | Full Moon Maple | Uncommonly cultivated; rarely persistent or seeding down. | Native of Japan. |  (c) Nomura, Norio - CC-BY-SA |
| Sapindaceae | Acer leucoderme | Chalk Maple | Rocky slopes and bluffs, particularly over mafic or calcareous rock, on the Gulf Coast in floodplains. | A species of se. North America, primarily of the Piedmont from North Carolina to Alabama, less commonly in the Ridge and Valley of se. Tennessee (Chester, Wofford, & Kral 1997), low Blue Ridge of w. North Carolina and adjacent Tennessee and Georgia, Coastal Plain of Panhandle Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and se. Texas, and in sw. Arkansas and se. Oklahoma. |  (c) Sorrie, Bruce A. - CC-BY |
| Sapindaceae | Acer negundo var. negundo | Eastern Box Elder, Ash-leaved Maple, River Maple, Arce (es), Fresno de Guajuco (es), Bois pant (frc), Érable giguère (frc) | Riverbanks, swamps, bottomlands, also upslope on calcareous substrates. | The species ranges nearly across North America, including well into the arid west along rivers. Var. negundo occurs from New Brunswick west to Manitoba, south to c. peninsular Florida and Texas. |  (c) Bradley, Keith |
| Sapindaceae | Acer negundo var. texanum | Great Plains Box Elder, Texas Box Elder | Floodplains. | Western and central North America south to sc. Mexico. |  (c) Sarabia, Antonio - CC-BY-NC |
| Sapindaceae | Acer nigrum | Black Maple | Riverbanks, streambanks, cove forests, river slope forests, especially over calcareous rocks. | New Hampshire west to Minnesota, south to North Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Arkansas, and Kansas, primarily west of the Appalachians. |  (c) Krakowiak, Alaina - CC-BY |
| Sapindaceae | Acer palmatum ssp. palmatum | Japanese Maple | Suburban woodlands. | Native of e. Asia. Frequently planted in its numerous cultivars. Serviss & Serviss (2022) documented its naturalization in Arkansas. It is also reported as escaped and naturalized in the District of Columbia area (Shetler & Orli 2000). |  (c) Danielson, Erik |
| Sapindaceae | Acer pensylvanicum | Striped Maple, Moosewood, Whistlewood | Dry to mesic forests. | Nova Scotia west to Manitoba, south to w. North Carolina, nw. South Carolina, ne. Georgia, e. Tennessee, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. |  (c) Ware, Richard & Teresa - CC-BY-NC, permission granted to NCBG |
| Sapindaceae | Acer platanoides ssp. platanoides | Norway Maple | Suburban woodlands, disturbed forests, hedgerows. | Native of Europe. In much of the ne. United States, A. platanoides has become a noxious weed tree. |  (c) Ware, Richard & Teresa - CC-BY-NC, permission granted to NCBG |
| Sapindaceae | Acer pseudoplatanus | Sycamore Maple | Suburban woodlands. | Native of Europe. Planted widely in our area as a street and yard tree, especially in the mountains. Naturalizing from horticultural use in City of Alexandria (Simmons et al. 2020). Northward it is a noxious weed tree. |  (c) Ware, Richard & Teresa - CC-BY-NC, permission granted to NCBG |
| Sapindaceae | Acer rubrum var. drummondii | Drummond’s Maple, Swamp Red Maple, Drummond’s Red Maple, Érable de Drummond | Swamps and floodplains, often in deeply flooded situations. | A. rubrum var. drummondii is probably limited to the Mississippi River basin and its immediate tributaries; reports from more eastern areas likely represent pubescent extremes of Acer rubrum var. trilobum. |  (c) Sorrells, Ryan - CC-BY |
| Sapindaceae | Acer rubrum var. rubrum | Eastern Red Maple, Scarlet Maple | Upland deciduous forests, up to at least 1500m elevation, moist bottomlands and slopes. | This variety is the most widespread and common in our area; indeed it is one of the most ubiquitous and common trees of e. North America. |  © Scott Ward |
| Sapindaceae | Acer rubrum var. trilobum | Carolina Red Maple, Swamp Maple, Water Maple | Wetlands, especially peaty, acid sites. | Primarily a Southeastern Coastal Plain variety, the range of var. trilobum is unclear, possibly extending well inland and northward. |  © Scott Ward |
| Sapindaceae | Acer saccharinum | Silver Maple, Soft Maple, White Maple, River Maple | Bottomlands, riverbanks, and disturbed areas; also commonly planted as a street tree. | Nova Scotia west to Saskatchewan, south to Panhandle Florida, Louisiana, and Oklahoma, rare and mostly introduced east of the Appalachians and south of Virginia. This is an abundant tree along major rivers in the Piedmont of Virginia. In some parts of our area, the species is more common as a street tree or an escape from cultivation than as a native tree. On the Coastal Plain of North Carolina and South Carolina, A. saccharinum is largely confined to the banks and levees of large brownwater rivers, such as the Roanoke and Congaree. |  (c) Campos, Aidan |
| Aceraceae | Acer saccharum | Sugar Maple, Hard Maple, Sugar Tree | Cove forests, other rich forests, especially over mafic and calcareous rocks, on calcareous soils common and typical in dry-mesic forests and dry woodlands as well, less typically extending to high elevation northern hardwood forests where sometimes in acidic situations (as in Highlands County, VA), in parts of the Piedmont perhaps more common as an introduction by ornamental planting than as a native, at least south of VA. | ||
| Sapindaceae | Acer saccharum var. saccharum | Sugar Maple, Hard Maple, Sugar-tree | Cove forests, other rich forests, especially over mafic and calcareous rocks, on calcareous soils common and typical in dry-mesic forests and dry woodlands as well, less typically extending to high elevation northern hardwood forests where sometimes in acidic situations (as in Highlands County, VA), in parts of the Piedmont perhaps more common as an introduction by ornamental planting than as a native, at least south of VA. | Var. saccharum is distributed from Nova Scotia west to North Dakota, south to n. Georgia, n. Alabama, and Missouri. A. saccharum var. saccharum is the primary source of maple sugar and maple syrup; formerly, commercial sugaring was done in w. North Carolina and w. Virginia. Large individuals of this species are the favorite substrate of a number of lichens, including Lobaria pulmonaria. The brown, platy bark is often similar to that of Aesculus flava. For its bright orange fall color, A. saccharum var. saccharum is one of our most prized ornamental trees. In North Carolina, it is most common northward and on mafic rocks, thus reaching perhaps its best development in the amphibolite peaks of Ashe, Watauga, Avery, and Mitchell counties; it is more general in more northern and more calcareous portions of our region. |  (c) Oldham, Michael J. - CC-BY-NC, permission granted to NCBG |
| Sapindaceae | Acer saccharum var. schneckii | Schneck's Maple, Sugar Maple, Southern Hard Maple, Rock Maple | Dry, dry-mesic, and mesic forests over calcareous substrates. | Acer saccharum var. schneckii Rehder is poorly understood, and may be distributed from sw. Pennsylvania, s. Ohio, s. Indiana, s. Illinois, Missouri, south to nw. Georgia, n. Alabama, n. Mississippi, sw. Arkansas, and e. and c. Oklahoma. |  (c) McFarland, Will - CC-BY |
| Sapindaceae | Acer spicatum | Mountain Maple | High elevation forests (northern hardwoods or spruce-fir), generally above 1500 m in NC, above 900 m in VA, especially common in periglacial boulderfields. | Newfoundland and Labrador (Newfoundland), Newfoundland and Labrador (Labrador), and Saskatchewan south to Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Iowa, and in the mountains to w. North Carolina, nw. South Carolina (Bradley et al. [in prep.]), e. Tennessee, ne. Georgia, and ne. Alabama. |  (c) Ware, Richard & Teresa - CC-BY-NC, permission granted to NCBG |
| Sapindaceae | Acer tataricum ssp. tataricum | Tartarian Maple | Disturbed areas. | Native of Eurasia. |  (c) Sites-Bowen, Connor - CC-BY |