Acer saccharinum
The word "la plaine", in the 18th-century Mississippi Valley dialect of French spoken at the time, referred to either the American sycamore or the red maple, both of which resembled the European plane tree either in their palmate leaves or similar bark. This meaning of "plaine" survives in Canadian French: "Plaine" or "Plaine rouge" refers to an Acer rubrum and Acer saccharinum is sometimes named a "plaine blanche".