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Acer glabrum (Rocky Mountain maple; mountain maple; new mexico maple; dwarf maple; california mountain maple; douglas maple; sierra maple)

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Wikipedia Abstract

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.
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Infraspecies

Acer glabrum var. diffusum (Rocky Mountain maple)
Acer glabrum var. douglasii (Douglas maple)
Acer glabrum var. glabrum (Rocky Mountain maple)
Acer glabrum var. greenei (Greene's maple)
Acer glabrum var. neomexicanum (New Mexico maple)
Acer glabrum var. siskiyouense
Acer glabrum var. torreyi (Torrey maple)

Attributes

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
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Protected Areas

Predators

Hyalophora euryalus (Ceanothus Silkmoth)[5]
Lithophane innominata (Nameless Pinion)[5]
Macaria plumosata[5]
Tamias ruficaudus (red-tailed chipmunk)[6]
Tamiasciurus douglasii (Douglas's squirrel)[7]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Agrilus politus[8]

Range Map

External References

USDA Plant Profile

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

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.
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
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