the red maple, Acer rubrum, found on moist sites in the southern part of Canada from Lake Superior eastward.
- 1800  The swamp maple . . . yields a much greater quantity of sap . . . but this sap does not afford so much sugar as that of the curled maple.
- 1956  The shores had a fringe of swamp maples and in a few more weeks when their leaves were turning scarlet it would be a very pretty place.