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Your search found 15 taxa in the family Aceraceae, Maple family, as understood by PLANTS National Database.
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Common Name:
Box Elder, Ash-leaved Maple
Look for it on riverbanks, in swamps, bottomlands, also upslope on calcareous substrates
Common (uncommon in Coastal Plain)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Mountain Maple
Look for it in high elevation forests (northern hardwoods or spruce-fir), generally above 1500m in NC, above 1000m in VA, esp common in periglacial boulderfields
Uncommon (rare in GA)
Native to North Carolina & Georgia
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Common Name:
Striped Maple, Moosewood
Look for it in dry to mesic forests
Common (rare in SC)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Eastern Red Maple
Look for it in upland deciduous forests, up to at least 1500m elevation, moist bottomlands and slopes
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Carolina Red Maple, Trident Red Maple
Look for it in wetlands, especially peaty, acid sites
Common in Coastal Plain (rare in Piedmont & Mountains)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Silver Maple, Soft Maple
Look for it in bottomlands, on riverbanks, and disturbed areas
Uncommon (south of NC, more often an escape from cultivation than a native)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Sugar Maple, Hard Maple, Sugar-tree
Look for it in cove forests, other rich forests, esp over mafic and calcareous rocks, on calcareous soils common and typical in dry-mesic forests and dry woodlands as well, less typically extending to high elevation northern hardwood forests where sometimes in acidic situations
Common (rare in Piedmont south of VA, where perhaps only introduced)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Southern Sugar Maple, Florida Maple
Look for it in bottomland forests, mesic slopes, esp common over mafic or calcareous rocks, but not at all limited to such situations
Common (rare in Mountains)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Chalk Maple, Small Chalk Maple, White-bark Maple
Look for it on rocky slopes and bluffs, particularly over mafic or calcareous rock
Uncommon (rare in Mountains & Coastal Plain)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Black Maple
Look for it on riverbanks, in streambanks, cove forests, river slope forests
Rare in GA & NC
Native to North Carolina & Georgia
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Common Name:
Trident Maple
Non-native: China
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Common Name:
Amur Maple
Look for it in disturbed areas
Non-native: east Asia
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Common Name:
Japanese Maple
Look for it in suburban woodlands; it is frequently planted
Waif(s)
Non-native: east Asia
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Common Name:
Norway Maple
Look for it in suburban woodlands, disturbed forests, hedgerows
Rare in our area, a noxious weed tree in much of the northeast US
Non-native: Europe
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Common Name:
Sycamore Maple, Planetree Maple
Look for it in suburban woodlands
Widely planted in our area, esp in mtns; northward it is a noxious weed tree
Non-native: Europe
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