| Description | Silver Maple (Acer saccharinum) is a large, fast growing Maple tree. It produces large amounts of seeds and will reseed most everywhere in your yard and has escaped into natural areas. |
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| Plant Type | All Plants, Trees Deciduous |
| Hardiness Zone | 3-9 |
| Sunlight | full |
| Moisture | prefers moist, very adapatable |
| Soil & Site | prefers moist, found growing along stream banks, prefers slightly acid soils, will grow on very poor soils |
| Flowers | The monoecious greenish yellow to red flowers are produced before the leaves in pendulous clusters. |
| Fruit | 1-2.5 inch samara or winged fruit, produced in large numbers. |
| Leaves | Leaves are simple: opposite, 5 lobed, green on top, silvery below and fall color can be variable ranging from a poor pale yellow to a nice clear bright yellow. |
| Dimensions | A very rapid grower reaching 50-70 plus feet in height. |
| Maintenance | A weak wooded plant that constantly drops branches and twigs. Subject to lots of wind and ice damage. |
| Propagation | very easy from seed |
| Misc Facts | Introduced in 1725 AKA: , Soft Maple, River Maple, White Maple (natural site) |
| Author's Notes | I inherited two very large Silver Maples at our new house. Although they are nice looking large shade trees, they are shallow rooted and very messy. There are better trees to use in the urban landscape. |
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