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Acer spicatum, photographed by an iNaturalist contributor
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#1028 most planted

Acer spicatum

Mountain maple · also Dwarf maple, Moose maple, White maple

170
trees mapped
0.00%
of all named trees
9
cities
1.6 in
median trunk (4 cm, 167 measured)
3.8 yr
median age (79% have a planting date)

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Acer spicatum, also known as mountain maple, dwarf maple, moose maple, or white maple, is a temperate tree native to northeastern North America, ranging from Saskatchewan to Newfoundland and south to Pennsylvania and northern Georgia. It is currently categorized as 'least concern' for conservation.

Where it grows

Trees in each city's inventory, with the share of that city's named trees this species accounts for.

  1. Halifax · Canada
    1143.8 yr1.6 in
  2. Helsinki · Finland
    1614 yr2.0 in
  3. Boston · United States
    114.3 yr4.4 in
  4. Toronto · Canada
    11—5.9 in
  5. Calgary · Canada
    7—2.0 in
  6. Montreal · Canada
    6—5.3 in
  7. Vancouver · Canada
    2—17 in
  8. Ottawa · Canada
    2——
  9. Quebec City · Canada
    1——

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.

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