Likely to be on the borderline of hardiness in your area. Bigleaf maples prefer sun but will tolerate light shade. Not fussy about soil conditions although they do not like to dry out - soil should be well drained but moisture retentive.

May grow larger and faster than expected. While this is considered a "dwarf", with bigleaf maples that term is relative as native trees easily hit 60'. I'd expect 20' easily and with an equal spread.

Thank you for the information. I have read various reports on hardiness. I've seen some reports saying that its hardy to zone 4B and I've seen some reports that its only hardy to zone 7. I am actually now living in Cleveland, Ohio and will be planting this in a solid zone 6 city lot along Lake Erie, so I had hoped my chances would be greater due to my close proximity to the Lake because the color is very nice in spring. Thank you so much for the information!!

Just about as soon as it appeared at outlets I frequent I planted one of these here in its native area, on a property with multiple bigleaf maple trees growing on it naturally. The first thing it did after spring leafing was get covered with mildew. Later it shriveled and basically died, as though extra susceptible to bacterial wilt (Pseudomonas).

The following year I saw another garden center had some of these moved away from the rest of the maples and off to the side, near their area for discounted trees and shrubs. An employee was spraying them with fungicide, their leaves having become grayed by mildew.

When a cultivar is not tested for an adequate number of years before being put on the general market - as perhaps was the case here - then it is left to retailers and consumers to discover any unpleasant limitations it may have.

To grow where you are a bigleaf maple would have to succeed in the local soils and summer climate as well as survive the winter. Many western North American species do not do well in the wet eastern summer. Summers are dry out here, also some pathogens and pests prevalent there are not so important (or even present) here.

An apparently more fragile cultivar like this one would probably be the least likely to work out under your conditions, if there is something there that would be hard on this species.