
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
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