| Scientific Name: | Populus tremula 'Erecta' |
| Common Name: | columnar European aspen, columnar Swedish poplar |
| Family Name: | Salicaceae |
| Origin: | Europe |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 2: (-46 to -40 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Tree - deciduous |
| Mature Size: | 10 - 15m x 3 - 4m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Fastigiate, Stiffly upright |
| Form: | Columnar |
| Texture: | Medium |
| Landscape Uses: | Hedge row, Wind break |
| Exposure: | Full sun |
| Soil or Media: | Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Alternate, Soft flexible, Lustrous, Orbicular, Ovate, Crenate, Dentate |
| Flowers: | Catkin (ament), Red, Silver, Black, Feb-Mar |
| Fruit: | Aborted (hybrids) or absent |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Columnar; leaves alternate, most blades broadly ovate, 3-8cm long x 2-7cm wide, 3 major veins fan our from base, margins crenate, green/whitish underneath (similar to species). Winter ID: new bark chocolate brown, old bark light brown, rough collars of dark nubs around trunk, very prominent bark ridge scar. | |