Acer pensylvanicum
Striped maple · also Whistlewood, Moosewood, Moose maple
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Acer pensylvanicum, also known as the striped maple, is a small, slow-growing understory tree native to North America. It is notable for being one of the most shade-tolerant maple species. The tree is a sequential hermaphrodite, capable of changing sex throughout its lifetime.
Where it grows
Trees in each city's inventory, with the share of that city's named trees this species accounts for.
- 1060.14%11 yr2.0 in
- 460.03%—6.0 in
- 280.02%13 yr2.0 in
- 260.02%3.9 yr5.2 in
- 200.03%—9.3 in
- 190.01%—9.1 in
- 190.01%1.3 yr1.2 in
- 150.01%14 yr9.8 in
- 100.00%—14 in
- 100.00%—2.5 in
- 30.00%—3.1 in
- 30.00%—9.5 in
- 10.01%—12 in
- 10.00%——
- 10.00%—11 in
Traits
- Growth rate
- Slow
Trunk diameters across every city: median 2.0 in, mean 5.3 in, 90th percentile 13 in. Measured at breast height, as published by each inventory.
Native range
Terrestrial ecoregions where this species is native. Trees in the dataset mostly stand well outside it.
Temperate Broadleaf & Mixed Forests
- Eastern Canadian Forest-Boreal transition
- Eastern Great Lakes lowland forests
- New England-Acadian forests
Other Acer in the catalogue
50 of the top 2,000 species are in this genus.
