A tree with 🌳︎ broadleaves arranged ╫ opposite, blade division=🍁︎ simple, 5-♧-lobed, sinuses=very sharp, undersurface downy-white, end lobe narrows toward base, twigs bright chestnut-brown, branch tips curve upward. Usually grows in moist areas.
Also called ◼︎ silverleaf maple, ◼︎ white maple and ♒︎ creek maple. Also called ♒︎ water maple and ♒︎ swamp maple, although do not confuse with sister-species
◼︎ 🍁︎ red maple Acer rubrum,
which is also sometimes called those. One of the
soft maples.
Part of
🍁︎ maple genus Acer
in
soapberry family Sapindaceae
in
cashew / 🌰︎ chestnut / 🍊︎ citrus / 🍁︎ maple order Sapindales.
Native to 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 Canada and USA, east of the 🏔 Rocky Mountains.
🗺 Map by county (🇺🇸 USA-48)
(color key),
🗺 map (North America, Central America), 
🗺 today + with climate change (eastern 🇺🇸 USA).
Uses by native peoples
(Ethnobotany database)
Acer hosts caterpillars of 285 species
of butterflies and moths, in some areas.
This plant is also known to be a host for (in areas where invasive)
🐝︎ spotted lanternfly (SLF) Lycorma delicatula.
Often planted as a shade tree, due to the visual interest of the shadows from its deeply-lobed leaves, and the leaves fluttering in the breeze from the dark uppersurface to the bright undersurface.
Male trees score 🤧︎ very allergenic (9 out of 10) on the OPALS™ Ogren Plant Allergy Scale.