General Landscape Uses:
Fast growing shade tree with attractive silvery leaves.
Availability:
Grown by enthusiasts.
Description: Medium deciduous tree up to 115 feet tall. Deeply palmated leaves with five lobes and sharply serrated edges, 2-8 inches long. Leaves are silvery on the underside.
Dimensions: To 64 feet in Florida. Taller than broad.
Growth Rate: Fast
Range:
Widespread in eastern North America south to the Florida Panhandle; disjunct in Citrus County, where collected once in
1969. For a digitized image of Elbert Little's Florida range map, visit the
Exploring Florida website.
Map of select IRC data from peninsular Florida.
Habitats: Wet hammocks, riverbanks.
Soils: Moist to seasonally wet, well-drained to poorly-drained sandy or limestone soils, with humusy top layer.
Nutritional Requirements: Moderate; can grow in nutrient poor soils, but needs some organic content to thrive.
Salt Water Tolerance: Low; does not tolerate flooding by salt or brackish water.
Salt Wind Tolerance: Low; salt wind may burn the leaves.
Drought Tolerance: Moderate; generally requires moist soils, but tolerant of short periods of drought once established.
Light Requirements: Full sun to light shade.
Flower Color: Greenish yellow
Flower Characteristics: Inconspicuous.
Flowering Season: Early spring.
Fruit: Two-winged samara
References: Wunderlin and Hansen (
2011), Ward & Ing (
1997)
Comments: We have been adding data for this species for central and northern Florida and welcome any feedback or review. If you would like to contribute information or images, please contact George Gann via the IRC staff page.
