Acer saccharinumL.

silver maple

WFO wfo-0000515004 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Acer saccharinum, photographed by Jeff Clark
fig. a Jeff Clark, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-05 / obs. 203695318
Acer saccharinum, photographed by theratgod
fig. b theratgod, CC0 1.0 / obs. 224590324
Acer saccharinum, photographed by Nick Kleinschmidt
fig. c Nick Kleinschmidt, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205443644
Acer saccharinum, photographed by rboles
fig. d rboles, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 200947034
Acer saccharinum, photographed by Jean Sorensen
fig. e Jean Sorensen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 200342098
Acer saccharinum, photographed by Tom Scavo
fig. f Tom Scavo, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 203200155
Acer saccharinum, photographed by rboles
fig. g rboles, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 202062874
Acer saccharinum, photographed by Eric Schmidt
fig. h Eric Schmidt, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205052535

Every figure is a research-grade observation under CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA, rehosted with the photographer’s name, the licence and the observation it came from. Photographs under a NonCommercial licence are excluded from this site and are never stored, which costs us a great many pictures and is not negotiable.

Flowering n = 670 observations

Peak flowering in Mar, from 670 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 43 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 coccineum Wender.
  • Acer dasycarpum Ehrh.
  • Acer dasycarpum f. albovariegatum Späth
  • Acer dasycarpum f. arbusculum Schwer.
  • Acer dasycarpum f. aureomarginatum Dippel
  • Acer dasycarpum f. citreovariegatum Schwer.
  • Acer dasycarpum f. curvatum Schwer.
  • Acer dasycarpum f. heterophyllum D.Thomson
  • Acer dasycarpum f. lacteum Schwer.
  • Acer dasycarpum f. longifolium Späth
  • Acer dasycarpum f. lutescens Späth
  • Acer dasycarpum f. macrophyllum Dippel
  • Acer dasycarpum f. monstrosum Schwer.
  • Acer dasycarpum f. nanum Schwer.
  • Acer dasycarpum f. palmatum Schwer.
  • Acer dasycarpum f. pendulum (Van Houtte) Schwer.
  • Acer dasycarpum f. pseudoternatum Schwer.
  • Acer dasycarpum f. pulverulentum Späth
  • Acer dasycarpum f. pyramidale Späth
  • Acer dasycarpum f. sanguineum Schwer.
  • Acer dasycarpum f. serpentinum Schwer.
  • Acer dasycarpum f. tripartitum Schwer.
  • Acer dasycarpum f. weiri Schwer.
  • Acer dasycarpum var. aureovariegatum G.Nicholson

and 19 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.