Melinda Myers

Silver Maple

Botanical Name

Acer saccharinum

Hardiness

Zones 3 to 9

Height

50 to 70 feet

Width

35 to 50 feet

Flowers

March: greenish-yellow to red

Fruit

Samaras

Fall Color

Yellow on some varieties

Light

Full sun to part shade

Soil

Tolerates poor soils

Planting & Care

• Easily transplants as balled and burlap or bare root
• Prune for stronger structure
• Moderately salt tolerant

Problems

Shallow roots buckle sidewalks, weak wooded - subject to storm damage, anthracnose, leaf spot, tar spot, cottony maple scale, galls

Varieties

• Silver Queen - seedless, better structure
• Skinneri - cutleaf form, yellow fall color, best horizontal branching, semi-weeping form
• Beebe Cutleaf Weeping - pendulous branches, deeply incised leaves