Autumn Blaze Maple
Acer x freemanii ‘Jeffersred’ · a Freeman maple with red fall color
A fast-growing hybrid of red and silver maple, chosen for brilliant red-orange fall colour on a sturdy street or shade tree. It's less prone to yellowing leaves than either parent, and once established it takes clay soil and both wet and dry spells.
- Mature size
- 50 × 40 ft
- 15 × 12 m, tall × wide
- Hardiness
- Zones 3a–8b
- USDA
- Sun
- Full sun
- Water
- Dry to wet
- Blooms
- Mar–Apr
- Fall color Oct–Nov
Autumn Blaze Maple at its mature size
A mature Autumn Blaze Maple grows 40 to 60 feet tall and 30 to 50 feet wide, taller than most people.
Drawn to scale beside a 5 ft 9 in person. With VeraScape, you see it at this size in your own yard.
Typical mature size, unpruned. Sources: The Morton Arboretum, The Tree Center.
Through the year
What Autumn Blaze Maple looks like month by month in a typical zone 6–7 garden.
Dormant · Dec–Apr
Bare upright branches, smooth gray bark.
In leaf · May–Sep
Dense deeply cut medium green leaves.
Fall · Oct–Nov
Brilliant orange-red fall colour.
Growing Autumn Blaze Maple
- Grows well in
- The Northeast, the Midwest, and the Plains and Mountain West.
- Growth rate
- Fast
- Good for
- Drought tolerant, rain garden, fall color, and fast growing
- Leaves
- Drops its leaves in winter
- Native to
- Garden hybrid (red maple x silver maple)
Spacing
VeraScape spaces plants so their grown canopies just touch. For Autumn Blaze Maple, that’s about 40 ft apart, center to center.
Place a row in your own yard and VeraScape spaces them at their mature width, so you can see whether they’ll crowd the walk.
See Autumn Blaze Maple in your yard before you dig
Visualize it at its true size, alongside the rest of your design.
Other maples
Autumn Blaze Maple
Red Maple
Sugar MapleAll drawn to the same scale.