| General Description | Maple leaves with a green colour, and smooth grey bark. Usually a medium size tree. Placed on IUCN red list as least concern. |
| ID Characteristic | Green palmate leaves, with tanned to grey bark, usually 3 to 5-lobed. |
| Shape | Oval, with long branches and house-shaped leaves. |
| Landscape | Typically found along creeks and water ways, and is used on the sides of streets for shade. |
| Propagation | For maximum germination a period of warm-moist stratification is required, followed by cool stratification. It is best to cut a few seeds open to see if there is a viable embryo. The seed can be harvested when it is fully developed but before drying out, and sown immediately. |
| Cultivation | Can handle a variety of soil types, but is typically on fertile, moist, and well-drained soils; it is not tolerant of salt. Can grow in full sun or light shade. |
| Pests | Potential problems for Acer floridanum may be aphids, gall mites, and borers. Can be susceptible to wilt disease. |
| Notable Specimens | A specimen can be found at Williamsburg Botanical Garden Trees and Shrubs in Williamsburg, Virginia, United States of America. |
| Habitat | The range is discontinuous in Piedmont and coastal plains, from southeastern Virginia southwest across North and South Carolina, Georgia into the Florida Panhandle. Range continues into south. Also found in isolated areas down the Gulf Coast. |
| Bark/Stem Description | Bark is tanned, grey, and smooth. Develops thick ridges with age. |
| Flower/Leaf Bud Description | Small, short and cone-shaped, with silky pubescence at bud scales. Plump and glabrous or hairy at the apex, grey-brown colour. |
| Leaf Description | Opposite, simple leaf with a green colour turning yellow or orange in the autumn. 7.5cm - 15 cm inches long and wide. |
| Flower Description | Greenish, yellow small flower (3 - 10 cm) with sprouts on stalks in groups in the early spring. |
| Fruit Description | A two-winged samara fruit that matures in fall and is 1 - 2 cm long with an angle of 60 to 70°. |
| Colour Description | Appealing tanned, grey bark. The green leaves change to a vivid yellow-orange to red in the autumn. |
| Texture Description | Tree is medium to coarse textured. |