Historical Common Names of Great Plains Plants:

Acer saccharinum L.

Origin: native

Scientific synonyms:Acer dasycarpum Ehrh., Acer dasycarpum var. weiri Schwerin, Acer eriocarpum Michx., Acer saccharinum L. var. laciniatum Pax, Acer saccharinum L. var. wieri Rehd., Acer saccharinus, Argentacer saccharinum (L.) Small

Common names:

American sugar maple (1768) (165)

Creek maple (1900-1929) (5, 156, 157, 158)

Curled maple (1821) (12)

Erable sucre (1785, French) (8)

Hard maple (1840-1931) (19, 65, 74)

Maple sugar tree (1876) (92)

Red maple (1900, misapplied) (158)

River maple (1900-1923) (5, 156, 158)

Rock maple (1840-1919) (2, 19, 92, 107)

Šigme-winš (1932, Chippewa) (105)

Silver maple (1840-Present) (2, 4, 3, 5, 9, 15, 19, 50, 82, 93, 97, 105, 106, 107, 109, 112, 114, 130, 131, 135, 138, 155, 156, 157, 158)

Silver-leaf maple [Silver-leaved maple] (1900-1929) (5, 156, 157, 158)

Soft maple (1895-1986) (3, 5, 37, 72, 76, 82, 85, 93, 105, 106, 107, 112, 124, 130, 131, 135, 156, 157, 158)

Sugar maple (1770-1937) (2, 8, 14, 18, 19, 20, 33, 41, 103, 105, 107, 124)

Sugar tree (1806-1919, Floyd) (35, 37, 43, 76)

Swamp maple (1900-1923) (5, 156, 158)

Sweet tree (1876) (92)

Tahado (1919, Dakota) (37)

Water maple (1900-1929) (5, 156, 157, 158)

Weir maple (1931, SD) (137)

Wenu-shabethe-he (1919, Omaha-Ponca, tree to dye black) (37)

Wešabeőe (1918?-1970?, Osage, black-dye tree) (121)

White maple (1840-1919) (2, 5, 19, 20, 76, 85, 92, 93, 106, 107, 109, 158)

Wiers weeping maple (1949) (109)

Wissep-hu (1919, Winnebago, tree to dye black) (37)