ILLINOIS PLANT INFORMATION NETWORK ILPIN INFORMATION ON Acer negundo CLASS: DICOTYLEDENAE ORDER: SAPINDALES FAMILY: ACERACEAE SCIENTIFIC NAME: Acer negundo AUTHORITY: L. COMMON NAMES: ASH-LEAVED MAPLE BOX ELDER SYNONOMY: None PLANTS CODE: ACNE2 NATURAL COMMUNITIES: FOREST FLOODPLAIN FOREST MESIC WET-MESIC WET LISTED CHARACTERISTIC CULTURAL AGRICULTURAL FIELD FIELD DIVISION RESTORATION FOREST SAF FOREST COVER TYPE: CENTRAL Other Central Types River Birch - Sycamore SOUTHERN Bottomland listed Cottonwood Sugarberry - American Elm - Green Ash Sycamore - Sweetgum - American Elm Other Southern types listed Sweetgum - Yellow poplar NATURAL DIVISION: Western Forest Prairie Galesburg Carlinville listed COUNTIES: ADAMS ALEXANDER BOND BOONE BROWN BUREAU CALHOUN CARROLL CASS CHAMPAIGN CHRISTIAN CLARK CLAY CLINTON COLES COOK CRAWFORD CUMBERLAND DEKALB DEWITT DOUGLAS DUPAGE EDGAR EDWARDS EFFINGHAM FAYETTE FORD FRANKLIN FULTON GALLATIN GREENE GRUNDY HAMILTON HANCOCK HARDIN HENDERSON HENRY IROQUOIS JACKSON JASPER JEFFERSON JERSEY JO DAVIESS JOHNSON KANE KANKAKEE KENDALL KNOX LAKE LASALLE LAWRENCE LEE LIVINGSTON LOGAN MCDONOUGH MCHENRY MCLEAN MACON MACOUPIN MADISON MARION MARSHALL MASON MASSAC MENARD MERCER MONROE MONTGOMERY MORGAN MOULTRIE OGLE PEORIA PERRY PIATT PIKE POPE PULASKI PUTNAM RANDOLPH RICHLAND ROCK ISLAND ST. CLAIR SALINE SANGAMON SCHUYLER SCOTT SHELBY STARK STEPHENSON TAZEWELL UNION VERMILION WABASH WARREN WASHINGTON WAYNE WHITE WHITESIDE WILL WILLIAMSON WINNEBAGO WOODFORD GROWTH FORM: Dicot-woody TAXONOMIC CHARACTERISTICS: ROOTS: Primary LEAF ARRANGEMENT: Opposite LEAF TYPE: Compound (pinnately) LEAF MARGIN: Serrate LEAF VENATION: Pinnate LEAF SHAPE: Oblong Lanceolate Ovate INFLORESCENCE: Raceme FLOWER MEROUS: 5 FLOWER STRUCTURE: Incomplete (no petals) FLOWER COLOR: Yellow Green FLOWER PLACEMENT: Perigynous FRUIT: Samara DISTINGUISHING CHARACTERISTIC COMMENTS: Plant has staminate flowers in umbel-like fascicles. GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION: ORIGIN: Native POPULATION DYNAMICS: STATE STATUS: Not listed FEDERAL STATUS: Not listed COMMONNESS: Common ENDEMIC: NOT-ENDEMIC BIOLOGIC: HABIT: Tree LIFE CYCLE: Perennial REPRODUCTION: Sexual FLOWERING PERIOD: MONTH BEGINNING- 4 MONTH END- 5 TROPHIC STATUS: Autotrophic C02 FIXATION: C3 SEX: Unisexual -dioecious BIOLOGIC COMMENTS: Flowers are appearing with the leaves. ECODISTRIBUTION COMMENTS: Species is distributed in river banks; roadside ditches. ENVIRONMENTAL RELATIONSHIPS: No data entered FUNCTIONAL RELATIONSHIPS: MAJOR DISPERSAL AGENTS: WIND MAJOR POLLINATION AGENT: Wind MYCORRHIZAE: endomycorrhizal NITROGEN FIXING Maybe HUMAN RELATIONSHIP DATA: ALLERGENIC: Yes EDIBLE: Yes-qualified SHOWY FLOWERS: NO LANDSCAPING: NO WILDLIFE AND LIVESTOCK INFORMATION: FOOD VALUE: DEER VALUE: - Leaves Stems Buds UPLAND GAME VALUE: - Fruit Stems Buds WATERFOWL VALUE: Unknown SMALL NON-GAME BIRD VALUE: - Fruit Flowers Buds SMALL MAMMAL VALUE: - Fruit AQUATIC MAMMAL VALUE: Unknown FISH VALUE: Unknown COVER VALUE: DEER: No data WATERFOWL: No data SMALL MAMMAL: No data FISH: No data SMALL BIRD: Good UPLAND GAME: No data AQUATIC MAMMAL: No data WILDLIFE COMMENTS: Terrestrial furbearers (esp. squirrels) eat seeds, flowers, bark, and twigs. Concerning small non-game bird food value, this is good for evening grosbeaks. LIVESTOCK PALATABILITY DATA: CATTLE FORAGE: No data SHEEP FORAGE: No data HORSE FORAGE: No data GOAT FORAGE: No data ENERGY VALUE: Medium PROTEIN VALUE: Low POISONOUS (LIVESTOCK): Suspect REVEGETATION PLANTINGS: WEEDINESS: Non-weedy SEED AVAILABILITY: Fair PROCUREMENT COMMENTS: Seed company numbers: 4,20,27,28. REFERENCES: Jones, G. N. 1963. Flora of Illinois. Third ed. American Midland Naturalist Monograph 7. University of Notre Dame, Indiana. 401 pp. Steyermark, J. A. 1963. Flora of Missouri. Iowa State University Press, Ames. 1725 pp. Gleason, H. A., and A. Cronquist. 1963. Manual of vascular plants of north- eastern United States and adjacent Canada. Van Nostrand Reinhold Co., New York. 810 pp. Swink, F., and G. S. Wilhelm. 1979. Plants of the Chicago region. Third ed. The Morton Arboretum, Lisle, Illinois. 922 pp. Anon. 1981. Illinois plants for habitat restoration. Illinois Department of Conservation, Mining Program. Springfield, Illinois. 61 pp. Eyre, F. H., ed. 1980. Forest cover types of the United States and Canada. Society of American Foresters (SAF), Washington, D.C., 148 pp. Schwegman, J. E., G. D. Fell, M. Hutchison, G. Paulson, W. M. Shepherd, and J. White. 1973. Comprehensive plan for the Illinois Nature Preserves System. Part 2 - The Natural Divisions of Illinois. Illinois Nature Preserves Commission, Springfield. 32 pp., plus map. White, J., and M. H. Madany. 1978. Classification of natural communities in Illinois. Pages 309-405 in J. White, ed., Illinois natural areas inventory technical report. Vol. 1. Survey methods and results. Illinois Natural Areas Inventory, Urbana. Miller, R. B., and L. R. Tehon. 1929. The native and naturalized trees of Illinois. Illinois Natural History Survey Bulletin 18: 1-340. Porter, C. L. 1967. Taxonomy of flowering plants. W. H. Freeman and Company, San Francisco. 472 pp. Downton, W. J. S. 1975. The occurrence of C4 photosynthesis among plants. Photosynthetica 9(1): 96-105. Meeuse, B. J. D. 1961. The story of pollination. Ronald Press Company, New York. 243 pp. OTHER REFERENCES: Wagner, W. H., Jr. 1975. Notes on the floral biology of box-elder (Acer negundo). The Michigan Botanist 14: 73-82. END OF DATA FOR SPECIES Acer negundo ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ILPIN was developed by Louis Iverson*, with data compiled by David Ketzner and Jeanne Karnes Illinois Natural History Survey, 607 E. Peabody Dr., Champaign, IL 61820 *currently employed by USDA Forest Service, 359 Main Rd., Delaware, OH 43015