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  Guide to the Common Trees of Pennsylvania

Trees | Glossary | Visual Guide | Leaf Parts, Types, & Position

Sugar Maple
(Wide & Flat: Opposite Arrangement)
Also called Rock maple for its hard wood, this important timber tree is found on moist wooded slopes throughout Pennsylvania, typically reaching 60'-80' high. Sugar maple wood is used for furniture, musical instruments and flooring and the sap is tapped for maple syrup production. Sugar maple is an excellent ornamental tree for large open areas. Birds and rodents eat the seeds. Deer, squirrels, porcupine and other mammals browse the twigs, buds and bark.

Sugar Maple
Acer saccharum Marshall
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Leaves
Opposite, simple, 5-lobed with few large teeth, about 4" wide, bright green above, pale green below. Leaves turn bright yellow, orange or red in autumn.
Twigs
Reddish-brown to light brown. Buds brown and sharp pointed.
Fruit
Horseshoe-shaped with wings almost parallel, maturing in autumn sometimes persisting into winter.
Bark
Gray brown, smooth on young trunks, older trunks fissured with long, irregular flakes.

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Wide & Flat: Opposite Arrangement

Wide and Flat: Alternate Arrangement

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PA Department of Conservation & Natural Resources
 
 

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