| Scientific Name: | Acer platanoides |
| Common Name: | Norway maple |
| Family Name: | Sapindaceae |
| Origin: | Europe |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 4: (-34 to -29 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Invasive plant, Tree - deciduous |
| Mature Size: | 22 - 30m x 10 - 15m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Upright |
| Form: | Oval - vertical, Round |
| Texture: | Medium - coarse |
| Landscape Uses: | Specimen plant |
| Exposure: | Full sun, Part sun/part shade, Filtered shade |
| Soil or Media: | Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Lobed, Opposite, Soft flexible, Palmate venation, Glabrous, Orbicular, Reniform, Dentate |
| Flowers: | Cyme, Yellow, Green, Apr |
| Fruit: | Samara, Schizocarp, Brown, Sep-Oct |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Leaves opposite, palmate with 5 long-pointed lobes (reminiscent of the Canadian flag leaf except with more elongated and pointy teeth); blades , most 12-16cm long x 11-18cm wide, petioles 15-20cm long, broken leaf veins or petiole ooze milky sap; schizocarps 7-9cm wide, thick edge of wings at wings at 110-130 degree angle (widely divergent wings - unlike sycamore maple), samaras 4-5cm long, seeds flattened, ~1cm wide. Winter ID: buds opposite, 2-3mm long, terminal buds 5-6mm long, plump green to burgundy; leaf scars 3-lobed with 3 widely spaced leaf scars; fruit may be present. | |