Sugar, Maple Seed
Sugar Maple Seed
- One of autumn's most brilliant displays of orange, gold and red foliage
- Tap mature trees each spring for sap to boil into real homemade maple syrup
- Long-lived, strong-wooded native shade tree for lawns, parks and woodlots
- Grow seeds from a northern source well suited to cold winters
Key Attributes
About Sugar, Maple Seed
Autumn brings one of the season's most brilliant displays of orange, gold and red to this classic North American shade tree. Sugar Maple (Acer saccharum) is also the source of real maple syrup, and mature trees can be tapped each spring for sap. It grows into a dense, rounded crown with five-lobed leaves, and being long-lived and strong-wooded, it is ideal for lawns, parks and woodlots. This northern seed source is well suited to cold winters.
Growing details
Plant profile
Seed & variety
Before Planting
Planting
Watering
Fertilizer
Harvesting
Tips
Pests & Diseases
Tar spot, anthracnose and verticillium wilt can occur. Leaf scorch is common in hot, dry, or urban sites.
Watch for aphids, scale and maple borers. Asian longhorned beetle is a regulated pest in some areas; report suspected sightings.
Native States & Regions
- Alabama
- Arkansas
- Connecticut
- Delaware
- Georgia
- Illinois
- Indiana
- Iowa
- Kansas
- Kentucky
- Maine
- Maryland
- Massachusetts
- Michigan
- Minnesota
- Mississippi
- Missouri
- New Hampshire
- New Jersey
- New York
- North Carolina
- North Dakota
- Ohio
- Oklahoma
- Pennsylvania
- Rhode Island
- South Dakota
- Tennessee
- Vermont
- Virginia
- West Virginia
- Wisconsin
Native regions: Widespread Native
Its Role in the Native Ecosystem
Sugar Maple's early spring flowers provide pollen for bees when little else is blooming. Its seeds feed squirrels, chipmunks, grosbeaks and finches, and its leaves host many native caterpillars that songbirds feed their young. Mature trees offer nesting cavities and dense canopy cover.
Sugar Maple Native Range Map
Native range describes natural occurrence, not the origin of this seed lot or every location where a plant can be grown.
Alaska and Hawaii are shown as insets. State-level range does not mean a plant occurs throughout every part of that state.
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