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Sugar Maple

Sugar Maple

Acer saccharum Marsh.

Aceraceae family

A large and common tree of our roadsides and cool forests on fertile sites. Its opposite leaves with wavy edges and characteristic maple shape turn varying luminous shades of yellow to orange and red from middle to late October.