Acer campestreL.

field maple

WFO wfo-0000514040 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Acer campestre, photographed by Paul Dubery
fig. a Paul Dubery, CC0 1.0 / 2022-06-13 / obs. 205776178
Acer campestre, photographed by Марина Садыкова
fig. b Марина Садыкова, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205694263
Acer campestre, photographed by Lisa Phipps
fig. c Lisa Phipps, CC0 1.0 / obs. 205182956
Acer campestre, photographed by Lisa Phipps
fig. d Lisa Phipps, CC0 1.0 / obs. 205195823
Acer campestre, photographed by Alexis Tinker-Tsavalas
fig. e Alexis Tinker-Tsavalas, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204579674
Acer campestre, photographed by Zeke Marshall
fig. f Zeke Marshall, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204355810
Acer campestre, photographed by Andrew Skotnicki
fig. g Andrew Skotnicki, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 203774738
Acer campestre, photographed by Yann Kemper
fig. h Yann Kemper, CC0 1.0 / obs. 203616380

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Confused withby our own model

These are not lookalikes we guessed at. Each one is a species our identification model genuinely mistook for this plant, and how many times. The error rate is published.

Flowering n = 273 observations

Peak flowering in Apr, from 273 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 125 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Acer affine Hoffmanns. ex Walp.
  • Acer affine Opiz
  • Acer austriacum Tratt.
  • Acer austriacum var. trifidum Borbás
  • Acer bedoi Borbás
  • Acer campestre f. aegaeicum Drenk.
  • Acer campestre f. albomaculatum Schwer.
  • Acer campestre f. angustilobum Schwer.
  • Acer campestre f. argenteovariegatum Schwer.
  • Acer campestre f. bedoi (Borbás) Schwer.
  • Acer campestre f. bedoioides R.Drenkovski
  • Acer campestre f. boomii Geerinck
  • Acer campestre f. brachypterum Borbás & Pax
  • Acer campestre f. collinum (DC.) Schwer.
  • Acer campestre f. compactum Schwer.
  • Acer campestre f. convergens Reinecke
  • Acer campestre f. corniforme Borbás ex Schwer.
  • Acer campestre f. deflexum Beck
  • Acer campestre f. falcatum Reinecke
  • Acer campestre f. ferrugineum Jovan.
  • Acer campestre f. glabratum (Wimm. & Grab.) Schwer.
  • Acer campestre f. hederifolium (Heinr.Braun) Schwer.
  • Acer campestre f. hirtivalvum (Borbás) Schwer.
  • Acer campestre f. josifovicii (Gajic & Diklic) Jovan.

and 101 more.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.