| Scientific Name: | Acer rubrum |
| Common Name: | red maple |
| Family Name: | Sapindaceae |
| Origin: | Canada - eastern, U.S. - northeast |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 3: (-40 to -34 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Tree - deciduous |
| Mature Size: | 15 - 22m x 10 - 15m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Open |
| Form: | Columnar, Oval - vertical, Pyramidal - narrowly, Round |
| Texture: | Medium - coarse |
| Landscape Uses: | Fall interest, Specimen plant |
| Exposure: | Full sun |
| Soil or Media: | Acidic |
| Leaves: | Simple, Lobed, Opposite, Soft flexible, Palmate venation, Glabrous, Ovate, Ciliate, Double serrate, Palmately lobed |
| Flowers: | Corymb, Red, Mar-Apr |
| Fruit: | Samara, Schizocarp, Red, Brown, Jun-Jul |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Leaves opposite, orbicular, most 5-13cm long x 6-14cm wide, with 3 major acute-tipped lobes, margins softly serrate, base rounded to cordate, fall colour vibrant red; florets red (hence the common name), appear before the leaves; schizocarps red, 1.3-1.8cm wide, thick edge of wings at 90-100 degree angle when mature (narrower than Norway maple), samaras 1.5-2cm long. Winter ID: buds red, glabrous (terminal buds multiple, 3-4mm long, lateral buds, opposite, 5-7mm long); flower buds more rounded, in clusters that circle twigs (gives the branches a bumpy look). | |