Calflora: Acer macrophyllum

Acer macrophyllum Pursh

big leaf maple, bigleaf maple

Acer macrophyllum, a dicot, is a tree that is native to California and is also found elsewhere in North America and beyond.

Communities:	Yellow Pine Forest, Foothill Woodland, Chaparral, Valley Grassland, (many plant communities), wetland-riparian
Habitat:	streambanks, canyons [Walker]
Wetlands:	Equally likely to occur in wetlands or non wetlands [U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service.]
Toxicity:	DERMATITIS [California Poison Control System 2010]
Elevation:	between 0 and 6000 feet
Family:	SAPINDACEAE (PLANTS: ACERACEAE)
Related:	See a list of other species in the genus Acer found in California.

Accepted by TJM2 + PLANTS + JM93

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Records by County, with approximate record counts in the form: TOTAL / CCH. Click county name to view records.

CCH: records provided by the participants of the Consortium of California Herbaria.

Information about Acer macrophyllum from other sources:

Photos on Picasa / Flickr / Google Images
website references on Google
USDA PLANTS Profile (ACMA3)
Nursery availability and horticultural info (what grows with this plant?) on CNPLX
2012 Jepson Manual Treament from the Jepson Herbarium,
University of California, Berkeley
Original Publication citation. on the International Plants Names Index
Search efloras.org (Flora of North America)
Search the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center Native Plant Database