Florida Maple
Acer floridanum
The southern counterpart of sugar maple, Florida maple is a heat-tolerant shade tree with golden-orange fall color for the lower South. Smaller and more drought-adapted than its northern kin.
- Family
- Sapindaceae
- Type
- tree
- Lifespan
- perennial
- Height
- 30–50 ft
- Spacing
- 25–40 ft apart
- Light
- sun, part shade
- Soil moisture
- moist, dry
- Soil pH
- neutral, acidic
- Bloom
- March, April
- Bloom colors
- yellow, green
- Wildlife value
- songbirds, larval host, pollinators
- Caterpillar hosts
- ~297 butterfly & moth species
- Landscape uses
- specimen
- Native states
- AL, AR, FL, GA, LA, NC, TX