Acer platanoidesL.

Norway maple

WFO wfo-0000514884 Accepted WFO 2026-06 7 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–g

Acer platanoides, photographed by Natalie Waddell-Rutter
fig. a Natalie Waddell-Rutter, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-10 / obs. 205320197
Acer platanoides, photographed by Марина Садыкова
fig. b Марина Садыкова, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205692899
Acer platanoides, photographed by Patrick Meurin
fig. c Patrick Meurin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205522457
Acer platanoides, photographed by Donald Davesne
fig. d Donald Davesne, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205009987
Acer platanoides, photographed by Yann Kemper
fig. e Yann Kemper, CC0 1.0 / obs. 203940145
Acer platanoides, photographed by Yann Kemper
fig. f Yann Kemper, CC0 1.0 / obs. 203932627
Acer platanoides, photographed by Daryl Nolan
fig. g Daryl Nolan, CC0 1.0 / obs. 203707431

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Confused withby our own model

These are not lookalikes we guessed at. Each one is a species our identification model genuinely mistook for this plant, and how many times. The error rate is published.

Flowering n = 2,614 observations

Peak flowering in Apr, from 2,614 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 96 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Acer cappadocicum subsp. turkestanicum (Pax) A.E.Murray
  • Acer dieckii (Pax) Pax
  • Acer dieckii f. integrilobum Schwer.
  • Acer dieckii f. monstrosum Schwer.
  • Acer fallax Pax
  • Acer laciniatum (Aiton) Borkh. ex Tratt.
  • Acer lactescens Pers.
  • Acer laetum var. cordifolium R.Uechtr. & Sint.
  • Acer laetum var. regelii Pax
  • Acer lipskyi Rehder ex Lipsky
  • Acer lobelii var. dieckii Pax
  • Acer lobergii Dippel
  • Acer palmatifidum Tausch ex Steud.
  • Acer platanifolium Stokes
  • Acer platanoides f. acuminatum Schwer.
  • Acer platanoides f. adspersum Schwer.
  • Acer platanoides f. albescens Dippel ex Schwer.
  • Acer platanoides f. albodentatum Schwer.
  • Acer platanoides f. albovariegatum (G.Nicholson) Schwer.
  • Acer platanoides f. argutum Schwer.
  • Acer platanoides f. aureomarginatum Pax
  • Acer platanoides f. bicolor Schwer.
  • Acer platanoides f. buntzleri (Wittm.) Schwer.
  • Acer platanoides f. coloratum Pax

and 72 more.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.