sentences:  Ward has shown that they are typical "Acer saccharum" after all, and not "A. floridanum" as Fernald had thought without examination, and thus Michaux's name is correctly a synonym of "A. saccharum".The distribution is discontinuous in the Piedmont and Atlantic Coastal Plain from southeastern Virginia southwest across North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia, as well as into the Florida Panhandle.The range goes farther west across Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, into eastern Texas, and north through Arkansas and into eastern Oklahoma.