Native
Trees of Indiana
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Silver Maple Acer saccharinum
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Natural range is green. |
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Leaves are silvery beneath, with a rather delicate appearance. It tolerates a wide range of soils, but is naturally found only in wet or moist places along stream banks and lake edges. A good tree for poor soils, and a fast grower, but the wood is weak and brittle. Swelling spring buds are an important source of food for squirrels.
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Inventory
No. 2535
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