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Acer grandidentatum, commonly called bigtooth maple or western sugar maple, [2] [3] is a species of maple native to interior western North America. It occurs in scattered populations from western Montana to central Texas in the United States and south to Coahuila in northern Mexico .
Acer × martinii Jordan (A. monspessulanum × A. opalus) Acer × pseudo-heldreichii Fukarek & Celjo (A. pseudoplatanus × A. heldreichii) Acer × ramosum Jordan (A. monspessulanum × A. opalus) Acer × schwerinii Pax (uncertain, maybe A. crataegifolium × A. rufinerve) Acer × zoeschense Pax (A. campestre × either A. cappadocicum or A. lobelii ...
Acer diabolicum: horned maple Aceraceae (maple family) Acer discolor: Chinese maple; Hunan maple Aceraceae (maple family) Acer distylum: lime-leaved maple Aceraceae (maple family) Acer elegantulum: elegant maple Aceraceae (maple family) Acer eucalyptoides: eucalyptus maple; gum maple Aceraceae (maple family) Acer fabri: Faber's maple Aceraceae ...
The leaves are used as a food plant for the larvae of a number of the order Lepidoptera (see List of Lepidoptera that feed on maples). In high concentrations, caterpillars, like the greenstriped mapleworm ( Dryocampa rubicunda ), can feed on the leaves so much that they cause temporary defoliation of host maple trees. [ 14 ]
Field maple Acer campestre, in Ebsdorfergrund-Frauenberg, Hesse, Germany. Aceraceae were recognized as a family of flowering plants also called the maple family. They contain two to four genera, depending upon the circumscription, of some 120 species of trees and shrubs. A common characteristic is that the leaves are opposite, and the fruit a ...
Gould's Ecoregions of Texas (1960). [1] These regions approximately correspond to the EPA's level 3 ecoregions. [2]The following is a list of widely known trees and shrubs found in Texas.
Plants of this family have a variety of habits, from trees to herbaceous plants to lianas. The leaves of the tropical genera are usually spirally alternate, while those of the temperate maples ( Acer ), Aesculus , and a few other genera are opposite.
Acer saccharum, the sugar maple, is a species of flowering plant in the soapberry and lychee family Sapindaceae. It is native to the hardwood forests of eastern Canada and the eastern United States. [ 3 ]