Welcome to Garden A to Z
  • Home
  • What's Up!
  • Forum
  • Market
  • About Us
  • Contact Us
  • In this section:

  • The most recent articles
  • Main features this season
  • This week in our gardens
  • Green thumbs up, down
  • Tip cuttings
  • Mentors' magic
  • The 45mph garden
  • Aiming for answers: Hit or miss
  • Big mistake, big lesson
  • Stumper - Whyizzit that
  • Scrabbling in the garden
  • Expert afield
    • Easy from seed perennials
    • Best Fall Bloom
    • Fall color landscape
      • Amur maple
      • Ash trees
      • Bald cypress Dawn redwood
      • Birch
      • Black gum
      • Box elder
      • Burning bush
      • Elm
      • Ginkgo
      • Hickory
      • Hydrangeas
      • Japanese maples
      • Katsura
      • Kousa dogwood
      • Linden
      • Little leaf linden
      • Locust trees
      • Parrotia
      • Pin oak
      • Poplar
      • Red maple
      • Red oak
      • Sassafrass
      • Serviceberry
      • Silver maple
      • Sourwood
      • Spice bush
      • Stewartia
      • Sugar maple
      • Trident maple
      • Tulip tree
      • Viburnums
      • Vines
      • Weeping cherry
      • White pine
      • Witchhazel
      • Yellowwood
    • Alexandria, Egypt
    • Tale of two growers
    • Arnold Arboretum
    • In the Big Apple
    • World weather notes
    • Kids and caterpillars
    • Parade prep no bed of roses
    • Birmingham Botanical Gardens, Alabama
    • High on NYC
    • Spring color
  • Kid's views
  • Ensemble weekly editions
  • What's Next
  • Come see us!
  • Subscribe to What's Up

Silver maple

Vital statistics

Silver maple (Acer saccharinum) is a fast growing large tree that produces lots of "helicopters" in the spring.

More:

Summer color
Fall color

Summer color

 

Fall color

 

Silver maple (Acer saccharinum) usually turns pale to bright yellow. This one is just starting to turn but loks almost white because of the leaves showing their underside.

SilverMaple9966s.jpg

SilverMapleLf9971s.jpg

SlvrMaple0612.jpg

SilverMap0607.jpg

SilverMaple1845.jpg

© 2011-2025 Janet Macunovich & Steven Nikkila. All rights reserved.

Contact us at info@gardenatoz.com