Also called Oregon maple.
Part of
🍁︎ maple genus Acer
in
soapberry family Sapindaceae
in
cashew / 🌰︎ chestnut / 🍊︎ citrus / 🍁︎ maple order Sapindales.
Native to 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 Canada and USA Pacific Coast and 🏔 coastal mountains.
🗺 Map by county (🇺🇸 USA-48)
(color key),
🗺 map (North America, Central America). 
Uses by native peoples
(Ethnobotany database)
🪵 wood from some large specimens is called quilt maple, figured maple, flame, tiger stripe or fiddleback. It is gorgeous, and used to make high-end musical instruments, including 🎸︎ guitars. Often harvested illegally, from public or other lands, by meth-heads.
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Acer hosts caterpillars of 285 species
of butterflies and moths, in some areas.
🌳︎🐝︎ Trees for Bees
This plant is known to be a host for (in areas where invasive)
🐝︎ spotted lanternfly (SLF) Lycorma delicatula.
One of the
soft maples.
From 1843–2018, two large beautiful mature trees grew in 🇮🇪 Ireland, on the grounds of 🏛 Trinity College in Dublin,
[2]
just outside the building holding the Book of Kells. Said to have been planted there in a wet area of the grounds due to the tree's ability to draw from the soil and evaporate large quantities of water.
[3]
A process, I learned much later, called phytohydraulics, using evapotranspiration.
Terminology!
Unfortunately, after 175 years of faithful service, and suffering from heart rot, the trees blew down/were cut down.
References
[1]
"The Olympic Peninsula's Meth-Head Maple Thieves." Seattle Weekly. .
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"Perched above the northeast shore of Harstine Island in south Puget Sound." Seattle Weekly. .
Accessed .
[2]
"Monumental trees on the grounds of the Trinity College in Dublin, Leinster, Ireland." Monumental Trees.
Accessed .
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Tour guide, to EP and others in our tour group, .