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
- 50–50 ft
- Spacing
- 25–40 ft apart
- Light
- part shade
- Soil moisture
- moist, wet
- Soil pH
- acidic, neutral
- Bloom
- April
- Bloom colors
- yellow, green
- Wildlife value
- pollinators, butterflies, mammals, songbirds, larval host
- Caterpillar hosts
- ~297 butterfly & moth species
- Landscape uses
- specimen, rain garden
- Native states
- AL, AR, FL, GA, IL, KS, KY, LA, MO, MS, NC, OK, SC, TN, TX, VA
Related native plants
More Acer species
- Red Maple (Acer rubrum)
- Silver Maple (Acer saccharinum)
- Boxelder (Acer negundo)
- Sugar Maple (Acer saccharum)
- Bigleaf Maple (Acer macrophyllum)
- Striped Maple (Acer pensylvanicum)