This tree has a long tradition of use in herbal medicines among Native Americans. Pioneers used its rich ashes to make soap, its leaves for salads, its beautiful canopy to shade farm animals and its roots to stabilize the soil.
The Sugar Maple is legendary for its benevolence and is the primary large hardwood tree in northeastern U.S. forests. This deciduous tree can grow to 75 ft (23 m) tall and can live for 100 years, but does not tolerate pollution well. Every year, the U.S. gets about two million gallons of its syrup from the Sugar Maple.
The Sugar Maple is the state tree of New York, Vermont, West Virginia and Wisconsin
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