A tree with 🌳︎ broadleaves arranged ╫ opposite, blade division=🍁︎ simple, margin=♧ lobed, 3-7 main veins radiating from 🍁︎ one point (✋︎ palmate), sinuses=∪ rounded (U-shaped), base=∪ rounded, width=length.
Very similar to the
Sugar Maple Acer saccharum
(in the black maple, the leaves are ♧ 3-lobed [4+5 are very small], undersurface=hairy, and the sides droop), some authors consider them to be the same species, others different populations.
Native to much of the range of sugar maple: very-southern 🇨🇦 Canada, and the 🇺🇸 USA Midwest.
Uses by native peoples
(Ethnobotany database)
Genus used as host by caterpillars of 281 species
of 🦋 butterflies and moths, in some areas.
Like the sugar maple, tapped to make great maple syrup. We assume its wood is also made into hardwood floors and furniture.