Red maple
മൃദു മേപ്പിൾলাল ম্যাপেল
Acer rubrum L.
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 24 m
- wide
- 12 m
Sapindaceae
Also called Soft maple, Swamp maple, Red Maple, Swamp Maple
Formerly Acer coccineum, Acer fulgens, Acer glaucum, Acer hypoleucum, and 6 more
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.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- TreeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- E. Canada to C. & E. U.S.A.Kew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 12 m to 37 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
- RedRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -45.6 °C (USDA zone 2a)Read from NC State Extension, one source
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Spanish
- arce rojo, Maple Rojo
- root
- ACERUB, Ogö́hso:’, ᎩᎦᎨᏨᏩᎩ
- Portuguese
- Bordo-vermelho
- French
- Érable rouge
- Dutch
- Rode esdoorn
- Estonian
- punane vaher
- Russian
- Клён красный
- German
- Rot-Ahorn
- Finnish
- punavaahtera
- Czech
- javor červený
- Ojibwa
- Aninaatig-miskwaanzo (Zhiishiigimiiwanzh, Cicigîme’wîc)
- Polish
- Klon czerwony
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, 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 3.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- 3D model: Acer rubrum (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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