Common Name - Sugar Maple

Scientific Name - Acer saccharum

Description: large tree with rounded crown of dense foliage; height is 70 to 100 feet with a diameter of 2 to 3 feet. Tree located at
Hawthorne Elementary School
2405 Champaign Avenue
Mattoon, Illinois
The Sugar Maple Tree

Description:
large tree with rounded crown of dense foliage;  height is 70 to 100 feet with a diameter of 2 to 3 feet.

 
Habitat:

uplands and valleys with moist soils;  sometimes in pure stands.
     Range:  from Newfoundland to Ontario and Minnesota, southward through the northern United States to northern Georgia and northern Louisiana.  The tree is most abundant in the northern part of its range.

 Sugar Maple Tree in Early Summer

© Riddle Elementary School, Mattoon, IL - 2003

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