Sugar maple is a vernacular name for:

Acer saccharum

Acer saccharum Marshall is an accepted species name sensu FNA Ed. Comm., in prep. f.

Vernacular names

• érable à sucre Darbyshire et al., 2000
• érable franc Marie-Victorin, 1995
• érable franche Marie-Victorin, 1995

• sugar maple Farrar, 1996
• hard maple Farrar, 1996
• rock maple Farrar, 1996

Synonyms

• Acer saccharophorum K. Koch FNA Ed. Comm., in prep. f
• Acer saccharum Marshall subsp. saccharum TROPICOS
• Acer saccharum Marshall var. saccharum TROPICOS
• Acer nigrum subsp. saccharophorum (K. Koch) R.T. Clausen FNA Ed. Comm., in prep. f
• Acer saccharophorum var. subvestitum Victorin & Roll.-Germain

Distribution

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• Native
• Introduced
• Ephemeral
• Excluded
• Extirpated
• Doubtful
• Absent

Classification

Class	Equisetopsida
Subclass	Magnoliidae
Superorder	Rosanae
Order	Sapindales
Family	Sapindaceae
Subfamily	Hippocastanoideae
Tribe	Acereae
Genus	Acer
Species	Acer saccharum

Habit

Tree