Legacy Sugar Maple is a fast-growing native deciduous tree with a dense rounded crown.  The thick waxy dark green palmate leaves resist tearing and turn shades of gold, orange, and scarlet in fall.  Neither flowers or fruit is significant.  Best color in full sun and rich, moist, slightly acidic well-drained soils.  Legacy is drought and pollution tolerant.

MAINTENANCE NEEDS:  Medium maintenance.  Water regularly.  Susceptible to verticillium wilt, anthracnose, cankers, leaf spot, and tar spot.  Also susceptible to aphids, borers, and scale.  Leaf scorch may be a problem with drought conditions in full sun. Sugar Maples are usually intolerant of road salt and pollution.

LANDSCAPE USES: Group Plantings or Specimen Tree, Naturalized Areas, Woodland Gardens, Privacy Screen, Street Tree, and Shade Tree

COMPANION PLANTS:  Carex, St. John's Wort, Inland Sea Oats

IMAGES: Photo by Virens (Latin for greening), Sugar Maple, (2) Photo by David J. Stang, Acer saccharum Legacy 0zz, CC BY-SA 4.0, (3) Photo by David J. Stang, Acer saccharum Legacy 5zz, CC BY-SA 4.0, (4) Jean-Pol GRANDMONT, Acer saccharum JPG1T, CC BY-SA 3.0

*As plants have ranges in appearance they may not appear as the images shown.