FLORIDA SUGAR MAPLE (Ater Floridanum, Pax.). A to 60 feet. Small, erect-branched, spreading tree, with slender, smooth twigs. Bark smooth, pale, thin, becoming darker and roughened on old trunks. Leaves E to 3 inches in length and breadth, with 3 large triangular, wavy-margined lobes, and E faint ones at base; veins prominent, surface smooth, shiny, dark above, pale, pubescent beneath, turning yellow and scarlet in autumn. Flowers with leaves in corymbs at ends
of side spurs; calyx bell-shaped, yellow; no petals. Fruit, paired keys, 1- to a inch in length of wings, divergent. Dist.: Swamps, Georgia and Florida to Arkansas and Texas.