Silver Maple
Acer saccharinum · Sapindaceae · 은단풍
How to spot it
The underside of the leaf is silvery and shows well when the wind stirs it. Old bark peels in long strips.
Look
- Leaves
- Opposite leaves are deeply cut into five lobes, with silvery undersides.
- Flowers
- Inconspicuous greenish-yellow to red flowers open in early spring.
- Fruit
- The wings of the two samaras spread at an angle of about 80 to 90 degrees.
- Bark
- Gray to dark brown bark peels in long, thin flakes with age.
Where it grows
- In Korea
- Planted
- Native to
- Eastern and central North America.
- Ecology
- Grows on floodplains and along rivers, and tolerates poor, acidic, wet soil. The seeds are food for squirrels and birds.
Sources
- NC State Extension Gardener Plant Toolbox
- 국립수목원 국가표준재배식물목록(개정)
- 국립생물자원관, 국가생물종목록 I(2019)
- 대전광역시 한밭수목원, 제4차 수목원진흥실시계획(2019–2023)
- 대구광역시 (2019), 제2차 대구광역시 도시림 등 조성·관리계획
- USDA Forest Service — The Woody Plant Seed Manual, Chapter 1: Seed Biology
- 미주리식물원 Plant Finder
- USDA NRCS Plant Guide 'SILVER MAPLE Acer saccharinum L.'
- 한국향토문화전자대전(디지털광주문화대전) '우일선선교사사택'
- 한국향토문화전자대전(디지털광주문화대전) '양림동'