Florida Maple is a tree of mesic, usually calcareous woodlands of the Atlantic and Gulf coastal plain, from southeastern Virginia to central Florida and west to eastern Texas and Oklahoma (Little 1979). Though readily distinguished from its near relatives, Sugar Maple (Acer saccharum Marsh.) and Black Maple (Acer nigrum Michx. f.), and with somewhat greater difficulty from its close cousin, Chalk Maple (Acer leucoderme (Small) Nieuwl.), it has shared with them the uncertainties of which taxonomic rank they should be assigned and which scientific name they should carry.