- ACUBENS (Alpha Cancri). Though Bayer’s Alpha star, Acubens, at faint fourth magnitude (4.25), ranks only fourth in the constellation Cancer, after Beta (Al Tarf), Delta (Asellus Australis), even Iota, probably because of its position as a southern claw of the celestial crab.
- Acer macrophyllum Pursh (plants.sc.egov.usda.gov)
Maple Family (Aceraceae). Bigleaf maple is a native, long-lived medium to large sized deciduous tree that often grows to eighty feet tall. The leaves are simple, opposite, and very large between fifteen to thirty centimeters wide and almost as long (Farrar 1995).