Plantae > Tracheophyta > Magnoliopsida > Sapindales > Sapindaceae > Acer > Acer glabrumAcer glabrum (Rocky Mountain maple; mountain maple; new mexico maple; dwarf maple; california mountain maple; douglas maple; sierra maple)Synonyms: Acer barbatum; Acer glabrum f. tripartitum; Acer glabrum f. trisectum; Acer glabrum typicum; Acer glabrum var. tripartitum; Acer glabrum var. typicum; Acer subserratum; Acer tripartitum Acer glabrum is a species of maple native to western North America, from southeastern Alaska, British Columbia and western Alberta, east to western Nebraska, and south through Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana and Colorado to California, Arizona and New Mexico. |
| Allergen Potential [1] | Medium-High | | Screening - Summer [2] | Dense | | Screening - Winter [2] | Porous |  | | Bloom Period [2] | Late Spring | | Drought Tolerance [2] | Medium | | Edible [3] | May be edible. See the Plants For A Future link below for details. | | Fire Tolerance [2] | High | | Flower Type [3] | Dioecious | | Frost Free Days [2] | 6 months | | Fruit/Seed Abundance [2] | High | | Fruit/Seed Begin [2] | Summer | | Fruit/Seed End [2] | Fall | | Growth Form [2] | Multiple Stem | | Growth Period [2] | Spring, Summer | | Growth Rate [2] | Rapid | | Leaf Type [3] | Deciduous | | Lifespan [2] | Perennial | | Pollinators [3] | Insects, Lepidoptera | | Propagation [2] | Bare Root, Container, Cutting, Seed | | Root Depth [2] | 24 inches (61 cm) | | Seed Spread Rate [2] | Slow | | Seed Vigor [2] | Low | | Seeds Per [2] | 13663 / lb (30122 / kg) | | Shape/Orientation [2] | Erect | | Specific Gravity [4] | 0.52 | | Structure [3] | Tree | | Usage [3] | The leaves are packed around apples, rootcrops etc to help preserve them;
A fibre obtained from the inner bark is used for making mats, rope etc;
The bark has been used to make spoons, paint containers etc;
Wood - tough, hard, heavy, close grained, pliable; It weighs 37lb per cubic foot; The wood can also be used as friction sticks; The green wood can be moulded.; It was often used by native North American Indian tribes for making small items such as snowshoes, drum hoops, bows and pegs; | | Vegetative Spread Rate [2] | Moderate | | | Flower Color [2] | Green | | Foliage Color [2] | Green | | Fruit Color [2] | Brown | | | Fall Conspicuous [2] | Yes | | | Height [3] | 30 feet (9 m) | | | Hardiness Zone Minimum [2] | USDA Zone: 2 Low Temperature: -50 F° (-45.6 C°) → -40 F° (-40 C°) | | Light Preference [2] | Mixed Sun/Shade | | Soil Acidity [2] | Neutral | | Soil Fertility [2] | Intermediate | | Water Use [2] | Low |
View Plants For A Future Record : Acer glabrum |
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IUCN Category |
Area acres |
Location |
Species |
Website |
Climate |
Land Use |
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Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area |
V |
36286 |
Montana, Wyoming, United States |
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Canyonlands National Park |
II |
335430 |
Utah, United States |
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Carlsbad Caverns National Park |
II |
15448 |
New Mexico, United States |
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Cedar Breaks National Monument |
III |
6111 |
Utah, United States |
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Coram Biosphere Reserve |
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7460 |
Montana, United States |
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Crater Lake National Park |
II |
180091 |
Oregon, United States |
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Craters of the Moon National Monument |
V |
690996 |
Idaho, United States |
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Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument |
III |
5997 |
Colorado, United States |
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Glen Canyon National Recreation Area |
V |
1087901 |
Arizona, Utah, United States |
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Grand Canyon National Park |
II |
1210128 |
Arizona, United States |
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Lake Roosevelt National Recreation Area |
V |
103172 |
Washington, United States |
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Rocky Mountain Biosphere Reserve |
II |
239938 |
Colorado, United States |
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San Juan Island National Historical Park |
III |
1674 |
Washington, United States |
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Yellowstone Biosphere Reserve |
II |
2196863 |
Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, United States |
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Zion National Park |
II |
135667 |
Utah, United States |
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Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1Derived from Allergy-Free Gardening OPALS™, Thomas Leo Ogren (2000) ♦ 2USDA Plants Database, U. S. Department of Agriculture ♦ 3Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License♦ 4Forest Inventory and Analysis DB version 5.1, May 4, 2013, U.S. Forest Service ♦ 5HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández ♦ 6Tamias ruficaudus, Troy L. Best, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 452, pp. 1-7 (1993) ♦ 7Tamiasciurus douglasii, Michael A. Steele, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 630, pp. 1-8 (1999) ♦ 8Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics. |
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0
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