| Scientific Name: | Populus tremuloides |
| Common Name: | trembling aspen, white poplar |
| Family Name: | Salicaceae |
| Origin: | North America |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 1: (below -46 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Tree - deciduous |
| Mature Size: | 15 - 22m x 7 - 10m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Spreading, Upright |
| Form: | Oval - vertical, Round |
| Texture: | Medium |
| Landscape Uses: | Wind break |
| Exposure: | Full sun |
| Soil or Media: | Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Alternate, Soft flexible, Pinnate venation, Glabrous, Deltoid, Orbicular, Ovate, Crenate |
| Flowers: | Catkin (ament), Red, Silver, Mar-Apr |
| Fruit: | Capsule, White, Jun |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Leaves on mature trees are nearly round, 3-7cm long x 4-8cm wide, petiole flattened (larger and more triangular on young trees and suckers); catkins 4-6cm long, early spring before leaves appear; fruit 10cm long pendulous string of 6mm wide capsules, each containing about 10 minute seeds embedded in cottony fluff for wind dispersal in early summer. | |