Cultivation
The field maple is widely grown as an ornamental tree in parks and large gardens. The wood is white, hard and strong, and used for furniture, flooring, wood turning and musical instruments, though the small size of the tree and its relatively slow growth make it an unimportant wood.
It is locally naturalised in parts of the United States and more rarely in New Zealand. The hybrid maple Acer × zoeschense has A. campestre as one of its parents.
The tree has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.
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—Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797)
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—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)