Box elder
Acer negundo L.
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 12 m
- wide
- 12 m
Sapindaceae
Also called Manitoba maple, Ash-leaved maple, Boxelder, Ashleaf maple, Boxelder maple
Formerly Negundo aceroides, Rulac negundo
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- TreeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- N. America to HondurasKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 9.1 m to 15 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Spread
- 9.1 m to 15 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Flowers
- Cream, yellow, greenRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -40 °C (USDA zone 3a)Read from NC State Extension, one source
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Spanish
- Negundo, arce de hojas de fresno, Arce negundo
- root
- Acezintle, ACENEG, Թխկի հացենատերև
- Portuguese
- Bordo-negundo
- Italian
- Acero americano
- Catalan
- Auró americà
- German
- Eschen-Ahorn, Eschenblättriger Ahorn, Eschenahorn
- Czech
- javor jasanolistý
- Dutch
- Vederesdoorn, vederesdoorn
- Estonian
- saarvaher
- Russian
- Клён ясенелистный, Клён американский, Клен ясенелистный
- Polish
- klon jesionolistny, Klon jesionolistny
- Ukrainian
- Клен ясенелистий, Клен американський, Американський клен
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 2.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- 3D model: Acer negundo (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.