| Scientific Name: | Acer campestre |
| Common Name: | field maple, hedge maple |
| Family Name: | Sapidinaceae |
| Origin: | Central / west Asia, Europe |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 5: (-29 to -23 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Shrub - deciduous |
| Mature Size: | 7 - 10m x 7 - 10m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Dense, Upright |
| Form: | Round |
| Texture: | Medium - coarse |
| Landscape Uses: | Shade tree, Sheared hedge, Street (boulevard tree) |
| Exposure: | Full sun, Part sun/part shade |
| Soil or Media: | Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Opposite, Soft flexible, Palmate venation, Glabrous, Orbicular, Entire, Palmately lobed |
| Flowers: | Flowers clustered, Yellow, Green-yellow, Apr-May |
| Fruit: | Samara, Schizocarp, Green, Brown, May-Jun-Jul-Aug-Sep |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Leaves opposite, 5-10cm long x 4-9cm wide, with 3-5 rounded and entire lobes, dark green above, petioles 3-9cm long and with milky sap; flowers small, greenish, in upright small, upright pubescent clusters (usually monoecious); schizocarp 4-6cm wide, thick edge of wings at 170-180 degrees, each samara 2-3cm long x 8-10mm wide. Winter ID: twigs brown; buds dark brown; leaf scar three-lobed with one bundle scar per lobe. | |